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Solution to Voter Privacy :: Invisible Ink
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 involves optical scan ballots, invisible ink, and a fool-proof way for voters to ensure their ballots are correctly tallied. Dr. Vora and Popoveniuc introduces a vote-counting system that enables individuals to verify that their ballots have been collected and accurately tabulated. Scantegrity is the only...
2008 Election Prediction
I do not think that Obama will take the southern US States, but will take the Northeast, Greater Lakes, West Coast and Colorado and New Mexico. What is your 2008 Presidential Election prediction? I used the NPR map.
Hamm for VP in 2008 Election
A true soccer super-star and Olympic gold medalist Mia Hamm to encourage employees to spend more time reviewing and understanding the importance of benefits during the fall open enrollment season. Fall marks the beginning of open enrollment season, a time when millions of employees across the United States re-assess their benefit elections. According to a Guardian survey, employees spend 1.4 hours, on average, reviewing their benefits each year, compared to 4.9 hours holiday shopping. “Mia is a true humanitarian and uses her celebrity to help others. As a new mom she understands first-hand the importance of having the right...
Internet Strong Influence on 2008 Election
Search marketing firm Didit‘s 2008 Search Engines and Politics: A Study of Attitudes and Influence study found that “nearly 7% of those surveyed reported that were likely to change their vote before the election.” This alone may not be particularly surprising. However, there is no record of which advertising accounts on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are driving traffic to which sites, meaning any individual corporation, PAC, candidate or political party could be buying ads, sending clicks to any site. “With no restrictions on how much an individual or political action committee can spend buying search terms, and no record...