Aussie PM hires firm to spam electorate
News Howard has admitted he had hired his son's company, Net Harbour, to distribute emails containing promotional Liberal Party electoral material to voters in his electorate of Bennelong. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper quoted one recipient of the...
[August 27, 2004, 10:35]
Online voting could be answer to electorate apathy
News It's vital that the public feel motivated to vote in elections and as we move further into the digital age it's imperative that we find new ways to bring the election to the electorate. As voter apathy casts a shadow over Thursday's general...
[June 6, 2001, 16:18]
E-voting gets technology thumbs-up
News It's been truly exciting to be part of this campaign and receive such positive feedback from the electorate. The rest of the St Albans electorate voted between 8am and 9pm on Thursday, 2 May. The e-voting trial held in St Albans last week has been...
[May 3, 2002, 18:04]
Clarke pledges to push on with ID cards
News They talk about ID cards because they think it is popular with the electorate," he said. Once the electorate find out how much they cost and that they don't work, they will find that it's not quite so popular and it has to go out of the window.
[April 6, 2005, 17:35]
Government: we've learned from our IT mistakes
Talkback Blair's Government have learned as much about mistakes as they have learnt to listen to the electorate. They listen to the people and then bring in unpopular laws and policies, against the will of the people.
[June 20, 2006, 14:03]
ID card database plans expand
Talkback If the electorate think this is a such good thing, as the President often asserts, why is it I very seldom read positive statements about the NIR from anywhere outside of the Labour party? Personally I think it is typical NuLabour control freakery...
[April 23, 2006, 10:53]
Don't let up in ID card battle
Talkback I hope and pray that the electorate have to common sense not to elect them in the first place .hold on though, they elected this lot several times over, so maybe that one doesn't hold water. Brian, More authoritarian than this one ?
[October 22, 2005, 14:24]
Time for IBM to choose sides
Leader Just as George W Bush's government has polarised the US electorate -- the open-source debate has spilt the IT vendor community. Our interview with open-source zealot Richard Stallman is a great example of the passion that Linux and other community...
[November 24, 2004, 12:00]
"Damned ..."
Talkback Sooner or later depends entirely on your ability to make the RIGHT decisions for the electorate (sod the party dogma, woo the voters or you and the Party are out). Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't"
[January 14, 2008, 19:04]
UK's first online voters go to the polls
News The day has finally arrived when the electorate can actually use the electronic voting methods to determine the outcome of today's local elections," said the district council's returning officer, Mike Lovelady in a statement.
[April 26, 2002, 16:25]
The politics of Fear
Talkback We can't get any headway promising to improve their lot out there in pleb-land, so instead we will pump up the level of fear in the electorate on particular subjects, the best ones being: It's actually quite well explained and documented and is...
[March 26, 2009, 15:50]
Electronic voting 'insecure,' say researchers
News In the 2002 election, 19.6 percent of the electorate could have cast an electronic vote, up from 7.9 percent in 1996, according to Election Data Services. University researchers delivered a serious blow to the current crop of electronic voting...
[July 25, 2003, 11:52]
Homeland agency scores 'F' for network security
News We must get those at the very top, the decision makers, the ones accountable to the shareholders, the customers or the electorate, to recognise that lack of network security in an organisation is a material weakness and one that deserves necessary...
[December 10, 2003, 7:55]
Vote-selling site to come to UK
News But with Voteauction, investors can target the electorate directly. A Web site in the US is allowing voters to auction votes online, in a scheme that, according to reports, is likely to cross over to the UK and Germany.
[October 17, 2000, 15:49]
Top Tory resigns over 'database state'
News It is possible, and of course would be a cause of deep regret to me, but at least my electorate, and the nation as a whole, would have had the opportunity to debate and consider one of the most fundamental issues of our day: the ever intrusive...
[June 12, 2008, 14:57]
Dyson ends support for ICANN 1.0
News Dyson ruled out direct elections for ICANN board members, saying there is no clear electorate. As ICANN searches for a new structure and constructive rapport with the Internet community, the reform is being closely watched because it affects how...
[February 10, 2003, 12:10]
US voters turn to the Web
News US voters flocked to the Web on Tuesday, as news sites pulled out the stops on Election Day coverage, offering everything from the latest exit poll results to nuts-and-bolts information on where to vote.
[November 3, 2004, 7:33]
Government claims 'no change' in ID cards policy
News If the electorate get wind that the ID card system will involve a lot of being scanned and prodded and poked and checked by civil servants, the government may want some kind of smokescreen, like the Crosby review.
[November 5, 2007, 16:31]
Poles Apart
Blog They also seem to forget that they work for us, their electorate, and we don't want our public money spent on products which lock us into one vendor. The Polish government appears to have watered down a law currently passing through the country's...
[February 23, 2009, 20:02]
The issues making IT a political hot potato
Comment In any case they have a communication mountain to climb to get their points across, and who knows how these new ideas will go down with the post-20s part of the electorate. With an election on the horizon, Labour and the Conservatives are...
[August 27, 2009, 12:59]
