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On ballot secrecy
Talkback As an IT professional I would certainly never trust an electronic ballot. However, those who believe a paper ballot is secret (as in anonymous) are in fact mistaken. One of the reasons that a paper ballot is safe from fraud is that in the case of...
[January 31, 2007, 14:10]
Unite to hold Fujitsu strike ballot
News The ballot will begin on Monday, and the results are expected to be known after 30 October, Unite announced on Wednesday. A consultative ballot on proposals to close the company's final pension scheme and impose a company-wide pay freeze ended on...
[October 8, 2009, 14:22]
Ballot tracability
Talkback You might be interested in knowing that ORG would like to remove this requirement to have ballots traced back, even in a paper ballot. Hi there, Totally agree with the tracability of ballots, but any eVoting system implemented for wide scale use in...
[February 6, 2007, 11:01]
Europe to test Microsoft browser ballot system
News The European Commission on Wednesday announced it will market test a browser ballot system put forward by Microsoft in answer to antitrust concerns. Microsoft said in a statement that for the next five years in Europe, PC users who are running...
[October 7, 2009, 17:40]
Brave New Ballot review
Reviews Paper is retail: it might be easy to interfere with a single ballot or polling place, but it's difficult to commit fraud on any large scale when election counts rely on many polling places and many ballot boxes.
[February 2, 2007, 11:54]
Electronic voting: Moving beyond the ballot box
News Critics of this type of receipt argue that the end product is little better than a punch card ballot, subject to many of the same kinds of miscount problems that plagued the Florida election in 2000. Beneath the viridian green glow of a viewfinder...
[June 8, 2004, 16:20]
Unite to hold strike ballot at HP
News The ballot, which began on Wednesday, is the first time HP's employees in the UK have been asked to vote on industrial action, according to Unite. A consultation ballot held earlier this month resulted in an "overwhelming" vote in favour, the union...
[October 29, 2009, 11:57]
Microsoft's 'browser ballot' to cover XP and Vista
Blog For Windows XP and Windows Vista users the Ballot Screen update will first be made available between 3 and 6 months after the adoption of the Commission's decision under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003.
[July 30, 2009, 11:27]
Electronic voting: Moving beyond the ballot box
Talkback If the final vision is one where citizens can vote on every bill, who needs government representatives?
[June 27, 2004, 16:51]
Microsoft's 'browser ballot' to cover XP and Vista
Blog Comment Why can't this be made available worldwide? Or is this just a ruse to get the EU off their backs, since they already own the DOJ, in the states.
[July 30, 2009, 13:55]
Microsoft's 'browser ballot' to cover XP and Vista
Blog Comment Why would they make it worldwide? You can already completely turn off IE8 in Win7 and then install your pick of browsers. They dont own the DOJ, not under President Obama. MS should of stuck to their guns and showed some spine and pushed Win7E to...
[July 30, 2009, 14:28]
Microsoft's 'browser ballot' to cover XP and Vista
Blog Comment This has back fired on the EU because it puts the end user's into difficult position how on earth can they download any browsers without the OS coming with one.s So the auto update method is a good proposal around this, but all in all I think the...
[July 31, 2009, 0:32]
Browserless Windows 7 still listed for sale in Europe
News With its plans now centred on creating a ballot screen where users can choose which browsers to install, Microsoft has no plans to ever ship the browserless 'E' versions of Windows 7. Ultimately, Microsoft reversed itself and said it was open to...
[August 26, 2009, 11:38]
Microsoft accused of rigging OOXML votes
News The Free Software Foundation Europe has accused Microsoft of "stuffing the ballot boxes" in a vote designed to establish Office Open XML as a recognised industry standard. Microsoft stuffed the ballot boxes in Sweden — the room was crammed with...
[August 30, 2007, 16:27]
Law could mean IT news blackout
News A November 5 ballot vote will decide whether to approve Proposition 211, a proposed law that is intended to provide shareholders with better protection from securities fraud, according to supporters. Already spokesmen for Intel and AMD have said...
[October 25, 1996, 14:47]
Proprietary past looms over Microsoft OOXML hopes
News More than 30 member countries of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) have attended a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva to prepare for a final decision on Microsoft's contentious OOXML document format.
[February 28, 2008, 15:27]
IT implicated in voting-forms delay
News Never mind e-voting, technology is struggling to cope with the UK's postal ballot programme Data processing and IT failures have caused delays to postal vote deliveries across the UK, with more than 4 million ballot papers still to be sent to the...
[June 1, 2004, 12:25]
Fujitsu IT staff vote in favour of strike
News The results of the strike ballot, which began on 12 October, were announced by Unite on Monday. Fujitsu said in a statement on Monday that it was unable to comment on the results of the ballot. At the start of the ballot in October, Fujitsu...
[November 2, 2009, 16:10]
Secure Remote Voting for Overseas and Disabled Voters
White Papers Technologies as simple as email and fax can transmit a blank ballot quickly anywhere in the world. However, a ballot which cannot be successfully voted and returned and counted is no better than no ballot at all.
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Electoral Commission attacks election e-counting
News Among the issues highlighted in a report on the elections for the mayor and the London Assembly are apparent discrepancies between the number of ballot papers recorded as having been issued and the number scanned.
[August 4, 2008, 11:32]
