2 days ago
nelson : Bad ballots - Great examples of the kinds of things that go wrong in election ballots
Rod Begbie : MPR: Challenged ballots: You be the judge - Good overview of the kinds of mistakes on ballots that are being challenged during the Minnesota recount. [via] #
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems? - Why not? Well, here’s what we’re thinking. We all know that American elections can be messy affairs. As longtime online organizer Jon Pincus recently noted, "voter suppression relies to a large extent on information asymmetry." That imbalanc
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4 month ago
Linkorama : No Secret Software! - It’s simple: when data is gathered and used for the people as part of civic processes (voting is a good example), processing it using secret software, especially if it’s a private-sector secret, should be totally out of bounds.
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7 month ago
philgyford : Vote Match - Help to decide who to vote for in the London elections. For me it says: Paddick, Livingstone, Left List, Greens... Still hard to decide. (via Haddock)
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Really good article on voting systems and their applicability to the United States - I've been interested in this subject for a long time. We used single transferable voting at University for some stuff, but I really like the 'approval' system described here. Here are ten candidates I'd be okay with. Nice.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Idea Lab - Voting and Voters - Maybe the public doesn’t measure up because the politicians are not doing their job properly, not the other way around.
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18 month ago
jimray : The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights - Slate takes a damning look at the problem that voter fraud isn't. Interesting how Republicans do better when fewer people vote...
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19 month ago
nelson : How Paris voted - broken down by arrondissement. sure wish they had a map
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19 month ago
nelson : French electronic voting - They don't like it here, either
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22 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: Homemade key opens up every voting machine - "Interesting, it seems when you make a master key for voting machines it's not a good idea to put a photo of the key that's good enough to make a physical copy of..."
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23 month ago
cameron : Research - Can Polling Location Influence How Voters Vote? - Voting in a school or a church may affect your likelihood of voting for certain propositions
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deusx : Voter smashes touch-screen machine in Allentown : The Morning Call Online - "A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said
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25 month ago
Andy Baio : Video: Hacking Democracy - HBO looks at voting machine irregularities
jimray : Hacking Democracy (HBO Special) - Google Video - Wow, the whole thing is on Google Video? Rad.
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : Primary and early e-voting problems point to gathering storm - Could this year's election result in a hanging-chad-like farrago which convinces the general public that electronic-voting-without-paper-trail is A Bad Thing? I don't know whether I should hope it does or doesn't happen. [via] #
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25 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Prop 83: Sex Offenders is not what it seems. SAY NO! - Prop 83: Sex Offenders is not what it seems. SAY NO!: I'd care more about this if I thought about it. Luckily I can outsource that to Danah. :-)
kellan : apophenia: Prop 83: Sex Offenders is not what it seems. SAY NO! #
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25 month ago
gleuschk : PollingPlaceLookup - Onondaga county - looks like poop in firefox, but works
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26 month ago
cameron : Facebook Looks to Register Young Voters - Facebook will allow people to register to vote online
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30 month ago
jkottke : Maciej takes George Will to task on bilingual ballots - Maciej takes George Will to task on bilingual ballots. Will thinks bilingual ballots are "a mockery of the rule of law" because you need to speak English to become a citizen. Maciej says, "the insinuation that voters might want ballots in Spanish because
cameron : On Bilingual Ballots - Maciej takes George Will to camp on the idiocy of his argument against bilingual voting ballots
cobra libre : maciej ceglowski: on bilingual ballots - "Their linguistic fearmongering is harder to pull it off now than at the start of the last century, when there actually were entire American communities that never learned English and had their own civic conversation, in their own moon language. Curiously #
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31 month ago
deusx : Unfogged - "Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?" - "For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil elections people exist."
jimray : The people who work for Diebold are idiots - "For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil elections people exist."
Simon Willison : "Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?" - Voting machine company rep rules out possibility of corrupt election officials.
Rod Begbie : "Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?" - Diebold voting machines are found to be easily re-flashable by anyone wanting to invisibly rig an election. Diebold spokesman: "I don't believe these evil elections people exist." I have not the words. [via] #
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36 month ago
jimray : Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal - "Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officia
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jimray : Join the Mockracy - An interactive experiment in voting
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39 month ago
jimray : Voting Panel Will Propose New Calendar for Primaries - "Republicans worry about voter fraud and favor photo ID's. Democrats support easier registration and ballot access." So, one party wants to track citizens and the other wants to make it easier for people to vote.
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39 month ago
jimray : The Hype Over Voter Fraud - Voter fraud is largely a myth perpetuated by Republicans to enforce onerous voting requirements that disenfranchise traditionally Democratic voters
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42 month ago
philgyford : 'I will get three friends to sign up to the Proportional Representation Groundswell' - PledgeBank - Tell the world "I'll do it, but only if you'll help" - PledgeBank, a new site from MySociety. Comes with Brian Eno's pledge about proportional representation.
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Not Apathetic - not voting in the 2005 general election? - "NotApathetic was built so that people who are planning not to vote in the UK General Election on May 5th can tell the world why." I don't really approve of this, to be honest...
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