Word: ballot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...market for electronic voting machines boomed following the circumstances of the 2000 election in Florida. After the debacle, state officials began searching for new methods to facilitate voting and thus prevent another contentious election. Following California’s lead, many states began the transition from traditional punch card ballots to touch screen systems; yet, since the start of the switchover, many critics have come forth claiming that current systems are insufficiently equipped to stave off the threat of malfunction or manipulation. Therefore, many are calling for a paper trail, or “ballot receipts...
...most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts.” The report highlighted many of the potential dangers stemming from the nature of technology—essentially, that malfunctions are often unforeseeable—and the threat of “a wide range of attacks, including ballot stuffing by voters and incorrect tallying by insiders.” Until these considerable concerns are addressed, there is no legitimate reason to oppose a paper trail...
...secrecy and public resistance of the proposed paper trails may not simply involve matters of marketing. After discovering that Diebold’s Chairman, Walden O’Dell, and other members of the company’s board are significant Bush benefactors, their intentions of opposing a ballot receipts remained appropriately suspect to many of the proposal’s proponents. As long as the company’s software security remains inept at guaranteeing a fair and clean election, electronic voting without paper evidence leaves Diebold’s intentions dubious. To ensure that voter confidence...
...June 30 is simply meant to install a caretaker government with a six-month lifespan, whose primary purpose is to organize elections for December or January. U.S. commanders on the ground would prefer to see the Baathists and the Sadrists competing at the ballot box than taking pot shots at it. And there's good reason to believe that can be achieved in the case of Sadr, at least, who has long embraced Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's demand for elections. The firebrand cleric has perfected the art of campaigning for Shiite popular support by attacking the Americans...
Longtime Oregon political organizer Tim Nashif has helped form a new group, the Defense of Marriage Coalition, which is hoping to place an anti-gay-marriage initiative on November's ballot. The state supreme court has yet to approve the measure's language--a routine but time-consuming step--and it's unclear whether the coalition will have time after court approval to gather the 100,000 signatures needed to put the initiative before voters. Nashif, however, is confident that anger will fuel an unprecedented petition drive. "I have never seen people respond to anything like I have seen them...