Posts Tagged ‘ Election 2008 ’

Approximately two-thirds of Americans voting in the November Presidential election will cast their votes on paper ballots. How can voters be assured their votes are counted and kept private? GW Assistant Professor of Computer Science Poorvi Vora and doctoral student Stefan Popoveniuc found a solution called Scantegrity, their newly developed “voter-verifiable” voting system, which...
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The nonpartisan, nonprofit Public Agenda, which two weeks ago called on the McCain and Obama campaigns to focus on the big issues as it released its online “Voter’s Survival Kit,” is today calling on citizens to do their part and make sure they are up to speed on the big issues before the debates....
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With the stock market taking a beating the economy doesn’t look good for the poor, middle or the wealthy class of US citizens.  What will the current stock market snapshot change how someone votes? “With the recent news of the dramatic stock market decline and the government bailouts of leading mortgage industries, the economy...
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Two top Republican businessmen and party fundraisers are throwing their brainpower, their intimate understanding of Republican core values and their money behind getting Senator Barack Obama elected as U.S. President. Authors Wilbur O. Colom and James W. Parkinson have teamed up to write a new 104-page book that makes a fiscal and social argument...
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Former Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee has called vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a “cocky wacko” and said her selection as John McCain’s running mate has energized supporters of Democrat Barack Obama. Chafee left the Republican Party last year after losing his bid for re-election and now supports Obama. He told an audience...
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