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- Inventor of political microtargeting applies his craft for Romney
- Alex Gage is the guy who invented microtargeted election campaigning, the trend that sealed Karl Rove's reputation as political wunderkind. Using the wealth of personal data on Americans that's available for a price, the strategy was to use databases to identify Republican voters on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood, even home-by-home basis. In...
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
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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...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Robo-calls and elections
- Now that the election in the United States has run its course, I can take a moment to comment on one of the more unpleasant tactics used by both the Republicans and the Democrats - robo-calls. These "virtual" telephone calls were meant, I'm sure, to encourage voters to vote (and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Tonight's election results: Is the Internet ready for prime time?
- Just how much has the Internet transformed the conduct of presidential and other elections this year? The New York Times says it's been huge. Howard Dean calls the Obama campaign's directors Apollo 11 astronauts and controllers, compared to his use of the Net four years ago. ...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
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