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Councils' online election performance lambasted
News Most of the 34 councils holding a local election on 5 May, 2005 have provided minimal online information about their polls, finds a survey issued by Socitm. Socitm reviewed all the county council Web sites at the end of April by asking 10 questions...
[May 5, 2005, 15:20]
Councils' online election performance lambasted
Talkback How dare you have a go at the council, my local council are excellent. Why it was only monday I caught a sniffle and thanks to the local council they paid for my day off at work, sent someone round to answer all my telephone calls so I would be...
[May 5, 2005, 18:13]
Five years ago: 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 15, 2002, 6:01]
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]
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]
Online elections get a step closer
News The release of the XML election schema, which will provide a consistent way for data used in online voting to be described, will forge the way for people to vote online in general elections. Although Choudhury did not give an exact date for...
[March 12, 2002, 14:40]
Cook reveals hopes for Internet general election
News Online voting has never been used for a public election in the UK. Cook admits that it will be a "tough call" to have a secure online voting system in place for the next general election, but is confident that it could be a reality if the "bona...
[January 7, 2002, 12:17]
Online voting can't be trusted on standard PCs
News Online voting systems require the highest levels of security to maintain the integrity of the election process. However, election fraud on a mass scale is difficult, costly and hard to conceal in old-fashioned physical voting systems.
[March 8, 2004, 11:35]
Could Internet voting have saved the day?
News Online voting was even tried out for the US presidential election by a one Web site, Votehere.net, which ran a pilot scheme in California and Arizona. The uncertainty and controversy surrounding the US presidential election has prompted some UK...
[November 9, 2000, 13:17]
E-commerce minister proposes online voting
News Online voting has never been used for a public election in the UK. It would be very tempting for a hacker to get into the system and not tell anyone until election day," said Clark. The e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander yesterday (Thursday...
[October 26, 2001, 7:30]
Online voting could be answer to electorate apathy
News Some local councils have already dabbled in online polling and Forrester analyst Caroline Sceats believes some form of national e-voting will be in place by the next election. As voter apathy casts a shadow over Thursday's general election, a...
[June 6, 2001, 16:18]
Political paradox: Technology is everywhere, except in voters' hearts
News But influential lawmakers up for re-election in Congress this year say technology issues make up only a small piece of campaign platforms. I don't see information technology as a driving issue in any election this year," Westby said, noting that...
[October 20, 1998, 6:03]
Internet voting gets the Oxford blues
News Adler said that an election conducted using e-voting systems was safe and secure, and that people would be able to check that their vote has been counted. This voter verification, Adler claimed, ensures the validity of an electronic election.
[June 25, 2003, 13:21]
US Election 2004: The year the Web came of age
News In all likelihood, Dean's greatest impact on the election process wasn't his piloting of online grassroots interaction through sites such as Meetup.com. We raised nearly $14m online during the primaries alone, and we continue to raise money for the...
[October 28, 2004, 16:29]
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]
FBI unplugs candidate copycat site
News The success of fund-raising efforts on the Net during this presidential election cycle has given indications that political campaigns have begun to tap into what has, to date, been thought to be a generally apathetic attitude toward organised...
[February 21, 2000, 9:34]
Korea mandates e-voting by 2005
News It will be the first time a Lok Sabha, or central parliament election, will be held in the country since 1952. The Election Commission plans to increase the number of electronic voting machines from 600,000 to 800,000 by March 2004, according to...
[August 18, 2003, 9:50]
Internet voting gets stamp of approval
News To run the election, the Michigan Democrats hired a private contractor, Election Services Corporation (ESC). ESC is a 6-month-old company that coalesced around portions of Election.com, which conducted the March 2000 Arizona primary.
[February 10, 2004, 10:30]
Gloomy expectations for budget from tech industry
News Despite a great deal of government talk about the importance of the digital economy and Brown himself launching the government's strategy to deal with the emerging digital divide, industry pundits believe, this time around, the government will...
[March 7, 2001, 13:24]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News If you vote from an insecure home computer over an insecure network, you have an insecure election," Wagner said. The issues have cast a cloud of uncertainty over the upcoming election season, forcing ballot machine vendors to address a host of...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
