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MPs Will Not Drop Web Sites During General Election
News Former MPs will not be required to remove personal Web sites inaccurately describing them as Members of Parliament during the general election. Existing law was not established with the Internet in mind, although candidates are not entitled to use...
[April 25, 2001, 12:13]
Cook Reveals Hopes For Internet General Election
News Internet voting could be a reality for the next general election, the leader of the House of Commons revealed at the weekend. Cook admits that it will be a "tough call" to have a secure online voting system in place for the next general election...
[January 7, 2002, 12:17]
Cybercrime-fighting MP To Step Down
News The UK Parliament is set to lose one of its most tech-savvy politicians and IT champions at the forthcoming general election when Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan stands down. ZDNet UK will be publishing the full interview with Allan, including...
[April 11, 2005, 10:45]
Election Sparks Calls For Cybercrime Minister
News Tony Blair's decision to call a general election on 5 May has sparked a debate among delegates at the e-Crime Congress 2005 in London, with some arguing that the government should create an e-crime minister.
[April 6, 2005, 13:30]
Election Fever Grips The Web
News has teamed-up with Online Magic, PA Newswire and CompuServe to provide a UK Polling Booth at the general election site, enabling people to air their opinions on a range of issues. CompuServe has its own debating forum and UK election site while...
[March 21, 1997, 16:45]
Analysis: What Labour Should Do With The E-minister
News As Blair finally gets around to announcing that the general election will be held on 7 June, those in the tech industry are asking how the issues of broadband, e-government and the digital divide will be dealt with in what looks certain to be a...
[May 10, 2001, 11:15]
Election 2001: Political Parties Show Their IT Stripes
News With the UK general election campaign in full swing, the three main political parties have come under criticism for not fully understand the importance of technology and the issues that surround it. Fri 18 May 2001 Labour has condensed its...
[May 25, 2001, 10:57]
Straw Makes Internet Grooming An Election Issue
News Internet "grooming" has become an election issue for the Labour party, with opposition parties accusing the government of deceitfully taking ownership of a proposal to criminalise the online solicitation of children in the run-up to the general...
[May 21, 2001, 13:37]
No ID Cards Before The Election
News The government's plans for a national ID card look set to be shelved until after a general election because of likely opposition to the bill by Conservatives in the House of Lords. The ID card bill's fate is likely to be sealed during the "wash up...
[March 16, 2005, 16:45]
Government Abandons ID Card Bill
News The UK government has slammed opposition to the biometric ID card bill after admitting it will be forced to shelve the plans after running out of legislative time in the run up to next month's expected general election.
[April 5, 2005, 9:50]
Douglas Alexander Takes On E-minister Role
News Alexander ran the general election campaign with chancellor Gordon Brown, but this is his first ministerial appointment. He became member of parliament for Paisley South in 1997 and held the seat in last week's general election -- polling 17,830...
[June 12, 2001, 9:32]
Revealed: Blair's Broadband Wake-up Call
News Ed Richards, on his last day of duty as Tony Blair's senior policy adviser on media and telecommunications -- before joining Ofcom as a senior partner -- revealed on Thursday that immediately after Labour's landslide general election win in 2001...
[March 28, 2003, 15:17]
Blair Reshuffles IT
News He held his seat in the General Election earlier this month with 47 percent of the vote. Before the election, industry group Intellect called on the Prime Minister to appoint an IT minister who would focus entirely on technology - a plea which...
[May 12, 2005, 9:05]
Electoral Commission Hopes For Email Voting Next Year
News The Electoral Reform Commission is unwilling to even consider it an option for the next general election in four years' time, but hopes that different electronic systems will be piloted in that period.
[April 30, 2001, 15:41]
Government To Push E-voting
News The UK government has committed £30m to fund e-voting trials over the next three years, with the intention of holding an e-enabled general election sometime after 2006. As ZDNet UK reported, although the St Albans trial was a technological success...
[October 7, 2002, 14:36]
Commons Passes ID Card Bill
News With the Labour government keen to get the Bill into law before the expected spring general election, the Tories in the House of Lords are expected to spin out negotiations. Any protracted debate on the legislation in the Lords will mean the...
[February 11, 2005, 16:40]
Microsoft Settlement: Done Deal
News He noted that some of the attorneys general -- Miller and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, among others -- were in the midst of re-election campaigns when the decision came down. The re-election bids slowed down the states...
[November 11, 2002, 14:47]
Vote-swapping Site Aims To Defeat Tories
News A vote-swapping site which encourages people to vote tactically in order to prevent the Conservatives winning the forth-coming general election has been launched this week. The idea for the site was inspired by a online campaign during the US...
[April 19, 2001, 8:04]
Government Criticised For Post-election IT Shambles
News MPs entering the House of Commons after the last general election were often unable to work due to poor provision of IT, according to a parliamentary report issued on 9 January, 2005. Outgoing MPs, according to official guidance, should retain a...
[January 10, 2006, 11:15]
Five Years Ago: Election Coverage Makes Foes Of MSN, BBC, ITV
News MSN's decision to kick off its MSN News rolling service with a general election-dominated agenda is taking it into a head-on fight for clicks with the BBC and ITV, each of whom have launched Web election sites of their own.
[March 30, 2002, 6:01]
