- I recently had the priviledge of being invited to participate in PressTV's Cinepolitics programme reviewing the US e-voting film, 'Uncounted'. The film struggles to make the pieces fit together, though there are some strong moments. If you haven't seen it then I would hands-down recommend 'Hacking Democracy' over 'Uncounted'. You can view the episode of Cinepolitics below:
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Elections Canada, the Canadian Federal Election management department, have announced a five year strategy to boost turnout with a focus on youth engagement. Yes, that means online registration and voting.
Richard Akerman is doing sterling work covering this developing issue and raising its profile over on his blog Paper Vote Canada. It's so disappointing that my other home country is pursuing this path also. -
Designing a better ballot: 37Signals link up to some good work being done on improving the design of ballot papers in North America. The link to the Quebecois design is particularly interesting.
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Diebold (now 'Premier') have now admitted that a logic error in their source was responsible for hundreds of lost votes in Ohio's primary elections this March. Originally they blamed anti-virus software for the problem! Another example of the poor quality of their systems and interesting relationship with the truth.
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Finishing on a lighter note, if you haven't seen it this clip of Homer trying to vote for Obama is spot on.
