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- CO official wants return to paper ballots
- CO official wants return to paper ballotsSecret CodeAs long as the code which tallies my vote is kept secret, I am going to doubt its honesty.I may not care to read that source code but I do care to be allowed to read it.Paper ballots are a good thingIt's reliable...
- Tags: Paper Ballots, ballot, voter, post voter
- Discussion threads 2007-12-26
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail elections
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail electionsMAIL ELECTION BY MAILHI,THANKS FOR YOUR CLEARLY WRITTEN ARTICLE. I HAVE SOME IDEAS ABOUT HOW VOTING SHOULD BE DONE THAT I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT FOR SOME TIME AND WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU.FROM WORKING AS A PART TIMER IN POST...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., ballot, voter, information technology, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail elections
- After all of the money spent, energy expended and ink spilled over electronic voting machines, it seems that there is a simpler way to vote that is more reliable and that could vastly improve participation: mail-in paper ballots. The Orange County Register interviewed a number of elections officials who...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machines
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machinesPaper TrailIn my voting precinct it was optional to use the touch screen voting machine. The bubble ballot scanners were also available, so I had a choice of either. I personally like the ease of use of the touch screen, but I would...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, PRODUCTIVITY, ballot, touch screen, computer, voter
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
- Bad sample ballot may explain voting shortfall in FL
- Its looking increasingly likely that those 18,000 missing votes in a congressional race in Floridas Sarasota County really were never cast, rather than being lost in a e-voting snafu. One possible reason for the shortfall: In efforts to save money the county sent out a sample ballot that didnt match...
- Tags: ballot, sample ballot, Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Sarasota, FL, junks e-voting machines
- Things went so swimmingly on election day in Sarasota County, FL, that the county will abandon touch-screen voting in 2008 and return to paper ballots, the Orland Sentinel reports. The e-voting machines may have lost some 18,000 votes in a hotly contested congressional race. That was the number...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Elections Kathy Dent, ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- IN: Machines fail, hours extended, court fights galore
- In Indiana, voters are suffering serious difficulties at the polls. In Delaware County technical glitches in e-voting machines prevented voting in 75 precincts and a judge extended voting hours in the county until 8:40 local time. On a blog-like page on its website, the Indianapolis Star is posting...
- Tags: E-voting, ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- VA legislators call for paper receipts for election day
- We noted Wednesday that a software bug on some of the voting machines in three Virginia cities will cause some candidates' names - including James Webb's, the Democratic contender for senator - to be truncated on electronic ballots. Webb's name will appear at "James H. 'Jim' " on the...
- Tags: ballot, Devolites Davis, paper, receipt, voter
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- IL counties have faith in voting machines
- In Illinois, county election officials are furiously spinning about election machines. In DuPage County, the Election Commission invited the media to tour a warehouse to see the steps they've taken to protect their Diebold-built machines from would-be hackers. And, the Daily Herald reports, in Kane County, the county...
- Tags: SECURITY, Lake County Clerk Willard R. Helander, ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Yet more on Evoting
- Back in 2004, when I wrote my evoting series for Linuxinsider, I was sure that a voting machine constructed on Sun Ray technology would need to print ballots for backup and function in a traditional polling place - but I was wrong on both counts. The reasons for that...
- Tags: voter, Sun Ray, ballot
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- E-Voting
- E-VotingPencil and paperMark the oval next to the candidate you prefer. Sometimes low tech is the best tech.There will be errors and fraud in any system -- the trick is to make fraud as costly as possible and errors as transparent as possible.Hand marked ballots keep the cost of fraud...
- Tags: Litigation, ballot, e-voting, voter, fraud
- Discussion threads 2006-10-16
- E-Voting
- The most striking thing about the whole evoting controversy is that everybodys focused on the visible part of the iceberg while the action, as usual, goes on below -i.e. people focus on the voting and tabulation processes, not the voter registration, poll management, and control processes where most of the...
- Tags: ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- In Alaska, Democrats warn voters off touch-screens
- The debate over electronic voting machines is getting overtly political, at least in Alaska. There, the Democratic Party is telling voters to stay away from the Diebold touch-screen voting machines Alaska is using, local station KTUU reports. “It is troubling, the reports that are coming in...
- Tags: touch screen, ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
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- A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge
- Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy. Those are some of the takeaways from a case study by David Carr at CIOZone, a site started by a bunch of my former Baseline...
- Tags: Strategy, Facebook, Phone, Information Technology, Volunteer, Barack Obama, David Carr, Hughes, Productivity, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXMLSo let me get this straight....... during an investigation of irregularities in the vote they are allowing an appeal after the dealine. Priceless!Glad to see it.When a company can't even implement their own creation that speaks for itself.No surprise on...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Venezuelan Government, ISO, Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, irregularity
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML
- This really can't come as much of a surprise, but the list of countries protesting the ISO approval of OOXML is getting longer. Venezuela's appeal has been accepted by the IEC International Electrotechnical Commission but the jury is still out on Denmark. Friday, the IEC said that...
- Tags: Venezuela, Appeal, Office Open XML, Denmark, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote
- Brazil, India and South Africa have filed appeals to the ISO/IEC approval of Microsoft's OOXML. At the Standards Blog, Andy Updegrove outlines some of the issues: Brazil's objections fall under two main headings, the second of which was also raised by South Africa. That...
- Tags: Brazil, Appeal, South Africa, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright cops
- Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright copsDeclaring war on your customers!Great PR move by big content! Apparently big content is feeling too much love from its customers! (These guys are hopeless!)Woot!Finally someone will be cracking down on all of those GPL violations as they cross the border,...
- Tags: NAFTA, Proposed NAFTA, supreme, agreement
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- The Obama Party and the Googlization of politics
- Barack Obama is the Google of modern American politics. MyBarackObama and Google share strengths and, perhaps, weaknesses. I just described Google's problem with the ASP loophole. By supporting the loophole Google maintains its proprietary advantage but risks losing friends in the open source community....
- Tags: Movement, Google Inc., Barack Obama, Stoller, Open Source, Blogging, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Email voting for overseas troops?
- Email voting for overseas troops?So what's wrong with absentee ballots?I'm under the distinct impression that mail call is still a major part of military life. I think it's even still possible to send US mail out of war zones.A couple of more comments1. The Australian ballot, if my...
- Tags: ballot, e-voting, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
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