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- MySpace will run mock election in 2008
- New Hampshires primary will no longer be the first election in the 2008 presidential race. MySpace announced plans to hold its own virtual election January 1 and 2, 2008, reports News.com. "Iowa and New Hampshire may be selecting delegates, but the MySpace vote will be the first test...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- 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
- Report blasts e-voting in midterm election
- Three anti-evoting advocacy groups have released a report that says electronic voting machines gave the country not more accurate elections but rather late poll openings, data-retrieval errors and widespread machine failures, The Houston Chronicle reports. The report PDF, released by Voter Action, VotersUnite.Org and VoteTrust USA, looked ...
- Tags: e-voting, voter
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- 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
- Panel says voting systems need paper audits
- A federal tech committee acted to herald the end of paperless electronic voting yesterday. The Technical Guidelines Development Committee voted to start work on a national standard for voting machines - and that standard includes independent verification of ballot choices, The Washington Post reports. "This seems to mark...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- 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
- Voters gain faith in American elections
- Overall, the 2006 election has restored confidence in the American election system. So says the Christian Science Monitor. Thats an amazing fact, considering the massive deployment of electronic voting machines and the publicity around potential problems. But, the Monitor says, its not because there were no problems with...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, voter
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- In FL, missing e-votes cast doubt on House race
- A Florida Democrat who lost his House race is seeking a recount after dozens of people reported problems using Sarasota County’s touch-screen voting machines and a significant number of ballots had no recorded votes in the high-profile race, The New York Times reports. Christine Jennings lost to...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, Christine Jennings
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- Is social networking driving youth vote?
- Everyone knows that young voters, in general, are the least likely to get out and vote. But social networking sites like Facebook are becoming the new tool for grassroots political organizing, reports the Los Angeles Times Facebook, email and instant messaging are natural vehicles for young people to...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, Facebook
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- 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
- Denver suffering glitches, long lines, frustrated voters
- In Denver, voters are experiencing major backups in voting due to computer glitches and an inadequate number of laptops to check voter registration. Democrats had asked a judge to extend polling hours in the citys voting centers, but she declined, saying she doesnt have authority to do so, The Rocky...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- MO could be the next OH - or FL
- Missouri. The new Ohio (and Florida.) Thats what Missouri election officials are afraid of. The trouble is no different than in other states - potential disasters from e-voting machines (due to malfunction, poll judge error and at least accusations of tampering) and confusion over a voter ID law. But...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, voter
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- IN could face perfect storm of Election Day trouble
- Indiana is facing a potentially perfect storm of an Election Day disaster, the Indianapolis Star reports. There are a combination of factors that could create confusion or an intimidating atmosphere for voters," said Julie Fernandes, senior counsel and voting rights expert for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, voter, voter database, database
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
Additional Resources
- Canada adds another city to LED City list
- Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way -- 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are...
- Tags: City, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Good news on the Dell netbook front
- Just a quick update now that I have a minute to sit down tonight. I heard from my Dell rep this afternoon that, although it's not available on the Dell K-12 education pages, the Inspiron Mini 9 is available to all education customers in quantity. Here's...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blogging, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.
- A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- LHC scientists get death threats
- So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
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