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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
- The democratization of IT
- Get your head out of your paradigm"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in...
- Tags: Quality, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Election-day technology watches the polls
- I'm in Reno, Nevada, preparing to do some poll watching for the Obama campaign. We went to a training last night where they explained what seems like a convoluted reporting system, but organizers promise it actually works well. Poll watchers basically hang around and wait for the...
- Tags: Election Day, Poll, Obama, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Marketing, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Verizon's story on McCain cell tower full of holes
- Verizon's story on McCain cell tower full of holesMore idle speculation and inuendo.I can't wait for your hard hitting articles about Rezko and Obama or Acorn and Obama.Um...this from the same people...who talk about how great it is that we can erect cell towers in sparsly-populated areas in Africa, because...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., cell tower, U.S. Secret Service, John McCain, tower
- Discussion threads 2008-10-17
- Child predators apparently don't use Gmail
- Child predators apparently don't use GmailWell saidI enjoyed this post and agree in a whole hearted way. The law and legislators are woefully behind the times. Maybe it's time for a tech savvy litmus test for would-be legislators. After all how they perceive technology will have a great deal to...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, predator, Google Gmail, Child predator
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...
- Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- 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
- Major flaw in State of Pennsylvania online voter registration puts user data at risk
- Major flaw in State of Pennsylvania online voter registration puts user data at riskCommonThis is a common phenomenon, happens to MS-only shops.You get a 'developer' who only knows Microsoft technology. (aka: Softie). Since Microsoft stresses ease of use (they don't do complexity well), you get the point and click 'developer'...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., ASPX, online voter registration, voter registration, MAJOR Flaw
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
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