33 month ago
plasticbag : The Open Rights Group (of which I'm an advisory board member) released its report on e-voting a couple of weeks ago which is well worth a read... - The conclusion is not positive, suggesting that while there are many flaws that could be fixed, fundamentally there may be very significant collisions between verifiable and trustworthy elections and e-voting as a concept.
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37 month ago
plasticbag : There's a lovely piece on YouTube asking some of the questions that should be asked about the House of Lords, but with puppets! - This is the kind of thing that you'd hope YouTube would be full of, but unfortunately since the copyrighted stuff started to disappear the really creative stuff hasn't really taken up the slack...
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41 month ago
plasticbag : David Cameron's approval ratings are apparently starting to falter - Specifically as a result of some of the apparently policy-lite soft-left stuff that he's been pumping around recently. I can't see my traditionally right-wing family taking to him particularly. They're definitely hoping there's some steel under all the to
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43 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC has an interesting article about the rise of weblogs at political events - It still sort of astounds me that seven years after I started my site, and when I kept trying to say to people, "no really, they're sort of interesting", with everyone looking at me like I was nuts, that thye've gone on to take over the whole bloody world
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