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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...
- Tags: Elections
- 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...
- 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
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on board
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on boardIcahnThe cancer of the communications industry. He's almost so big the body can't reject his attacks and soon the it will die along with it's customers, not to mention all the jobs lost. Maybe he will sell it's soul to another country before...
- Tags: Corporate governance, board, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Internet abuse and Cloud Computing
- Internet abuse and Cloud ComputingAgreed - principle, not practiceI do think MacOS is better than Vista on almost all measures - and by that same standard that one side in the current U.S. elections has the right.As you say:---Oh and by the way I don't vote on ideological lines anymore...
- Tags: hypocrisy, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-05
- Latest iPhone details from AT
- Latest iPhone details from ATSick of America...Thats right, I said it. I'm over this BS country and all its red tape. When did we become so concerned with corporations an forget about the little guy? The iPhone is being sold unlocked everywhere but the US-lame. Then, on top of being...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Business services, Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, iPhone Details, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Obama benefits from the Net's election power
- The Internet has fundamentally changed the second most important aspect of elections: money. In fact, writes Tom Regan in the Christian Science Monitor's "Innovation" column, if not for Internet fundraising, Barack Obama would not be the Democratic nominee. In a year when he continues to break all fundraising records,...
- Tags: Network, Benefit, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Google calls for hike in H-1B visas
- Technology issues are never a big deal in presidential elections, as much as some people think they should be. One that Big Tech is trying to push, though is the H-1B visa situation. Bill Gates has been lobbying hard on the issue and now Google has signaled it's a big...
- Tags: Google Inc., Limit, Technology Issue, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- 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
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