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NIST Issues Open and Transparent Methods for Testing Electronic Voting Systems

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created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today opened for public comment detailed new methods for testing future electronic voting systems' compliance with voluntary federal standards. ...





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AT&T, union reach tentative contract deal

Technology / Business

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. and its largest union say they have reached a tentative deal on a new contract for 18,500 employees in the Midwest.


IEEE-USA president urges Congress to pass competitiveness legislation

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created Aug 02, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IEEE-USA President John Meredith urges the House and Senate to pass the conference report of the “America Competes Act” to help bolster our country’s global leadership in science and technology and promote U.S. competitiveness ...


Anti-Spoofing Bill Would Protect Caller ID

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created Apr 28, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The "PHONE" act, now working its way through Congress, would prevent faking caller ID data for malice or profit.


Electronic methods potentially secure for sending blank ballots overseas

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created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electronic technologies could be deployed immediately and reliably to augment slower postal mail for distributing ballots to U.S. citizens living abroad, but using telephone, e-mail, and the Web to transmit completed ballots ...


Campaign spending affects electoral outcomes

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created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In Canada, campaign spending limits for candidates during a federal election are stipulated by the Canada Elections Act. A study recently published in the Canadian Journal of Economics uses these spending limits to evalua ...


Voters respond favorably to touch screen voting equipment

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created Jan 14, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Voters have more confidence in paperless, touch screen systems to record their votes accurately than they do any other systems, including ones that use paper ballots, a new study says.


Democrats try to move on health bill; GOP objects (AP)

Democrats try to move on health bill; GOP objects

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Senate Finance Committee Democrats working on sweeping health care legislation are attempting a delicate juggling act: Making health insurance more affordable for millions of Americans while holding ...


House passes health care bill on close vote (AP)

Landmark health bill passes House on close vote

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the ...


Digital Life: Want to change Facebook's terms of service? Get 50 million people to agree

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created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comments on the Web are often immature or wildly misinformed. It was a pleasant surprise, then, to see Facebook members providing reasonable and articulate feedback in the social-networking's site new civic experiment.


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Protect your vote -- avoid election machine errors

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created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Of all the conceivable problems that could lead to a miscount Election Day, there's one possibility that voters can do something about – avoid making election machine-related errors, says a University of Maryland ...



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