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- Next step in e-voting: printers that don't jam
- The widespread use of e-voting machines yielded a backlash among voters. Most election officials have opted for system that include a paper audit trail, so voters can check that their votes were entered in the electronic machine as intended. But that solution is creating another low-tech glitch, AP reports...
- Tags: e-voting, Elections, Government technology, paper, printer, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Changes in e-voting afoot but who will foot the bill?
- With new federal guidelines on e-voting machines and widespread voter discontent, changes at the polling place are a sure thing for the 2008 Presidential election, The New York Times reports. "In the next two years I think well see the kinds of sweeping changes that people expected to see...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Despite compromise, paperless e-voting machines are history
- On his blog Freedom to Tinker, Prof. Ed Felten praises the new standards approved by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee TGDC.. While disappointed that the panel didnt require the removal of paperless e-voting machines, Felten thinks that states will phase out all-electronic machines in favor to the "state of the...
- Tags: Ed Felten, Elections, Government technology, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- About those voting machines ...
- Writing in Forbes, security expert Bruce Schneier says electronic voting machines are flat-out "a grave threat to fair and accurate elections." Much of our election security is based on "security by competing interests." Every step, with the exception of voters completing their single anonymous ballots, is witnessed by someone...
- Tags: e-voting, security
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
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- FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online
- Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...
- Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Guess who else is married to paper?
- Another paper perilThankfully, knock on wood, I don't get sick very often.Since I hadn't been there for years, my Clinic threw away my entire medical history.Paper is a fact of life.You have to a have a paper trail, the entire concept of goingpaperless is just silliness.I am sure with the...
- Tags: patient, doctors office
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Carper option in final Senate health bill
- opt outdoes that mean a state can decide, whether or not, their citizens can get national health care?"Let the trolling begin in earnest."?I think you meant:"[i]Let those who disagree with me begin posting.[/i]"No......trolling is posting deliberately inflammatory remarks in order to get responses. You've even admitted you're doing that, because...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Financial Planning, U.S. Senate, health care, insurance, Carper, Lasik
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Electronic voting: Changing the world faster than a Windows upgrade
- no encryption is good enough...Considering the power the US President has to shape US and World Policy, I think EVERYONE will be gunning to crack that nut.Enemies will try to get the worst/weakest candidate. Allies will try to get the guy who most loves them into power. Business...
- Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, e-voting, Windows Upgrade, Changing
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Election industry fights open source like it is 1999
- Election industry fights open source like it is 1999Correction: change the insecure in previous posting to secureReally got to look closer at what I post.I have to agree that the electronic election industryNeeds some severe reform, if not the hammer brought down on them. I was ALWAYS suspicious as to...
- Tags: Companies, election industry, open source, TRANSPARENCY
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- India's Sakshat = $20 wireless flash drive
- Proving that if something sounds too good to be true that it probably is, India's so-called $20 laptop is not really a laptop at all. Called the Sakshat (which means "before your eyes"), the device was revealed on the third to a lot of fanfare worldwide on the 3rd,...
- Tags: India, USB Flash Drive, Laptop Computer, Wireless, Notebooks, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Election Day '08: Where to get live results
- There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...
- Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?RE: Will e-voting machines tilt the election?First the reported problems are far more widespread than Tennessee and West Virginia. The e-voting systems are being reported as having the similar issues nationwide and even with different manufactures.See http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616The behavior being reported is hardly the type of...
- Tags: Keyboards, e-voting system, e-voting, e-voting machine, touch screen
- 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
- Resurrecting E-voting
- Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
- Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- US Census: The future is paper
- So it's not just elections. Seems that paper is the way to go for the national Census, as well. A $600 million contract to Harris Corp. to design and create handheld computers for the census takers is now just yet another government IT fiasco, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, plans to...
- Tags: Harris Corp., Government, Handhelds, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- How green could make Europe a tech power
- How green could make Europe a tech powerEU IntegrationIt's funny that you think that a federal Europe is the same as a "single set of rules". American (and German, and Spanish) experience suggests the exact opposite - federal systems are designed to accommodate wide differences of culture and rules within...
- Tags: Kanellos, tech power
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Microsoft OSP is a pie crust promise
- Microsoft OSP is a pie crust promiseMS only has our best interest in mind.NOT!Keep it simple stupid is a good standard, MS standard is anything but simple.Let's see if I get this straightThe main gist of the paper is that OSP is not GPL and this, therefore, proves that...
- Tags: MS Only, Microsoft Corp., GPL, OOXML
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- 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
- Our students will need to drive e-voting
- I heard a piece on The World tonight on my way home from class highlighting electronic voting efforts. In contrast to the United States, where many states are abandoning efforts at e-voting and additional federal funding is being devoted to paper balloting, countries like Brazil have moved almost exclusively...
- Tags: E-voting, Government, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Textbook costs have to go
- I read a headline in our local paper today noting that a neighboring district was about to spend $40,000 on textbooks, largely to support an updated history curriculum. $40,000!!! This for a district not all that much larger than ours. The most painful part of this figure...
- Tags: District, Hardware, Textbook, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
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