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- Can Facebook exec turn friends into voters?
- Can Facebook exec turn friends into voters?Social Apps SuckStop wasting your time with this crap and get to work.
- Tags: Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- Is open source politically attractive?
- Is open source politically attractive?Do you think Canadians are so obsessed with software...... that a reference to open source as software is significant?I suggest the endorsement is a statement of political principle. Though it may not be accurate, open source might be considered an expression of an old principle:...
- Tags: open source, Bloc Quebecois, voter
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- CO official wants return to paper ballots
- CO official wants return to paper ballotsSecret CodeAs long as the code which tallies my vote is kept secret, I am going to doubt its honesty.I may not care to read that source code but I do care to be allowed to read it.Paper ballots are a good thingIt's reliable...
- Tags: Paper Ballots, ballot, voter, post voter
- Discussion threads 2007-12-26
- Republicans shy away from YouTube debate
- Republicans shy away from YouTube debateHm...Would be useful to know the reason for the reported phenomenon. Is it the case that most of these candidates only want to field questions from audiences guaranteed to be friendly? If so, that calls into question their fitness for leadership. After...
- Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, YouTube Inc., voter
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- 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
- Backers of stronger copyright laws form lobby group
- Backers of stronger copyright laws form lobby groupThat's exactly what it is..." RIAA President Cary Sherman, for his part, has denounced the group's stance as an "extremist" interpretation of the law designed to frighten consumers and policymakers."They just forgot to add.. "Because we want to suck you dry of all...
- Tags: Fair Use Act, CD, voter, copyright law
- Discussion threads 2007-05-17
- Lou Dobbs and illegal immigration
- Lou Dobbs and illegal immigrationLou Dobbs and Immigration.Whist I agree that the current illegal imigrant population cannot and should not be "sent back" I do believe that they should be "legitimized" as soon as possible. Back to the techy side. I am aware of numerous individuals from other countries working...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, congress/President, Lou Dobbs, H1B Visas, voter
- Discussion threads 2007-05-03
- 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
- In the context of their campaigns, Presidential candidates will need to come to grips with Web 2.0
- The 2008 Presidential race could be yet another tipping in the marriage between politics and the Internet. Whereas the 2004 election represented a tipping point in the area of Internet-based fund raising, 08 could be the year that voters really seize control of candidate reputations. Whether its unearthing that tiny...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web, video, voter, advertisement, Presidential Candidates
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail elections
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail electionsMAIL ELECTION BY MAILHI,THANKS FOR YOUR CLEARLY WRITTEN ARTICLE. I HAVE SOME IDEAS ABOUT HOW VOTING SHOULD BE DONE THAT I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT FOR SOME TIME AND WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU.FROM WORKING AS A PART TIMER IN POST...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., ballot, voter, information technology, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- 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
- Is Obama's social network anti-social?
- A VC is chastising Barack Obama, right out of what I am calling the “USER GENERATED POLITICS” 2008 gate!”“I had high hopes for Barack Obamas net savvy. But today his campaign blew it,” Fred Wilson puts forth.How so? Wilson itemizes a litany of Website incompatibilities, technical glitches and Web...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Media, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, Marketing, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machines
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machinesPaper TrailIn my voting precinct it was optional to use the touch screen voting machine. The bubble ballot scanners were also available, so I had a choice of either. I personally like the ease of use of the touch screen, but I would...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, PRODUCTIVITY, ballot, touch screen, computer, voter
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
- YouTube on the campaign trail
- Theres no doubt that much of the 2008 US presidential election is going to be fought out on the Internet -- and specifically through online video. For example, Democrat potential candidate Barack Obama has a channel on Brightcove, along with Republican Sam Brownback, while others such as Chris Dodd Democrat...
- Tags: video, YouTube Inc., voter
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- 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
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