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- How would you fix the browser ballot for European Windows users?
- Kill off Opera, or MS should pull out of Europe cause they can afford toMicrosoft should shut down all offices in the EU, pull out of the market entirely, and tell the EU to bugger off.Perhaps the commission will realize they were wrong.Seriously, over a browser, and the order of...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Opera Software ASA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, ballot, ballot screen, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- EU approves new browser ballot for Windows 7
- New ballot satisfies EU that users will be offered a fair choice among competing browsers. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Ballot, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, European Union, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows 7, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- IE/EU bickering continues ... Mozilla wades in
- Small potatoes--I'm waiting to see what the Russian FAS do next monthntOf course they are whining, they can't build a better productBut expecting the EC to grasp that may be too much.What else should they do?I would agree with what Adrian has posted other than:The first paragraph where he generously...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, ballot, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Web browser ballot mock-up ... thoughts
- Web browser ballot mock-up ... thoughtsAgreed...People will either choose Select Later or just click IE.However, you have to think that some people who are fed up with IE will take a closer look and decide for themselves.The sad part? Opera will probably gain 0 market share, even after all the...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ballot, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Secure Remote Voting for Overseas and Disabled Voters
- As a recent report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST explained, the easiest-to-solve portion of UOCAVA voting is simply delivering ballots to voters. Technologies as simple as email and fax can transmit a blank ballot quickly anywhere in the world. However, a ballot which cannot be successfully...
- Tags: Ballot, Fax, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Hacking the vote
- Hacking the voteYou'd think soBut lots of very smart people have spent lots of time not solving it.i think your server idea is right except that programmable clients make it possible to attack the server data store - something that can't be done with Sun Rays.Downside to having people pick...
- Tags: Scanners, E-voting, SECURITY, VOTING MACHINES, ballot, hacking, programmer, server
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked
- Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked"when an optical reader and paper ballot solve everything?? "It doesn't solve the problem of how to allow elections to be manipulated, which is what this is all about.The ability to produce a desired election result without having any way to challenge it is a...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, ballot, paper ballot
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- 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
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?
- Here's a bit from a Washington Post report dated Dec 22/07 and headlined "FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics": CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would...
- Tags: Database, Information Technology, FBI, Ballot, Catalist, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Our students will need to drive e-voting
- Our students will need to drive e-votingEvoting vs Paper voting.Chris,That's a great question. I sent my wife teacher this link to ask her opinion and also ask her to talk to a few students to see what they say. I'll be interested in what they have to say.In my...
- Tags: e-voting, ballot
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Playing things right down to the wire, Ohio election officials have ordered counties that use touch-screen voting machines -- there are 55 of them -- to provide paper ballots for voters who request them during the March 4 primary, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Secretary of State Jennifer...
- Tags: County, Ballot, Ohio, Keyboards, Financial Accounting, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- 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
- CO official wants return to paper ballots
- Colorado's secretary of state now says the state should junk electronic voting machines and go back to good ol' paper ballots, The Rocky Mountain News reports. "I have more confidence in having votes cast on paper ballots at the polls rather than relying exclusively on...
- Tags: Ballot, Electronic-voting Machine, E-voting, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- Colorado decertifies voting machines
- Colorado decertifies voting machinesSo, the mere fact that there was no printout, ...... or the capability of even GENERATING a hard copy of the vote, wasn't enough to alert these geniuses in the IT and Administrative departments of the government that we probably SHOULDN'T be USING these things?I guess there...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, electronic-voting machine, ballot, paper ballot
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Colorado decertifies voting machines
- Coming quick on the heels of a scathing voting machine report from the Ohio Secretary of State see Larry Dignan for details, the machines have been decertified for use in parts of Colorado. According to The Denver Channel: Secretary of State Mike Coffman cited security or...
- Tags: Colorado, Audit, Ballot, Financial Accounting, Scanners, Finance, Hardware, Peripherals, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?It's only the free world at stakeStep A Open source, then step B Test, retest, test ongoing, test until the end of time and C Use the damn manual ballots until the system is infallable... Not infallable yet? Repeat steps A and B.What about...
- Tags: open source, ballot, democracy
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- A looming election nightmare?
- After the recount debacle of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act HAVA. As a result, most states went out and replaced their punch card ballots with electronic voting machines. Unfortunately, evidence is mounting that this will have the opposite effect than the one Congress intended. ...
- Tags: Problem, Diebold Inc., Ballot, E-voting, Corporate Governance, Printers, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Peripherals, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- CA squabble with ES&S will delay SF election results
- Election night in San Francisco will be an anticlimactic affair, as Secretary of State Debra Bowen has implemented strict controls over Election Systems and Software, the company that makes the city's e-voting machines, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. "We'll probably be able to release the absentee ballot results at...
- Tags: Debra Bowen, San Francisco, Ballot, Computer Associates International Inc., E-voting, Government, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballots
- E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballotsI was unaware my vote was suppost to be secretWhat a great thing if votes were secret. But I was unaware that it was so. I have always assumed that at least the government knew my voting record just as I know the voting record of my...
- Tags: Government, ballot, e-voting, E-voting predicament
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- Image: Illustrating Ohio's e-voting problems
- Chart created by two Ohio residents shows how to reconstruct a supposedly secret ballot.Two Ohio residents have created this chart to show how to reconstruct a supposedly secret ballot.One data source is a list of voter names sorted by the order in which they voted. The second data source is...
- Tags: Ohio, data source, ballot, estimation, e-voting
- Image galleries 2007-08-20
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