Tag: ELECTION 2008

Twitter has proven its usefulness before, expanding the classroom, reporting on earthquakes and protests in China, and helping one journalism student get out of a Egyptian jail. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Twitter yesterday continued to prove that it's good for more than just sharing your random thoughts when at least one voter managed to get help at the polls from the Election ...

It's actually a 'Simpsons' joke -- Homer selects Barack Obama repeatedly, yet the electronic voting machine disregards his choice and racks up votes for John McCain. The joke would be pretty damn funny too, if it weren't actually happening in West Virginia and Ohio right now. In the last few election cycles, the big names in bungled elections were Ohio and Diebold (which has been renamed Premier ...

Sequoia Voting Systems, one of the largest producers of digital voting machines in the world, has sent a letter legally threatening Edward Felten, a well known Princeton Law Professor. The letter threatens legal action if Felten and his colleagues publish any security audit of the Sequoia voting systems. The possibility of litigation has forced Union County (New Jersey) to forgo any plans of a ...

Pennsylvania was forced to pull the plug on a voter registration Web site after it was found to be leaking private information about voters in the state. The security breach occurred with the presidential primary for that state a mere month away. The shut down resulted from an improperly designed online voter registration form that was initially intended to simplify the process of registering to ...