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Vote-selling site to come to UK
News 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. Voteauction.com allows voters to sell their votes anonymously online for $19.61 (£13.40).
[October 17, 2000, 15:49]
Internet voting gets stamp of approval
News Of the nearly 163,000 votes recorded in the caucus that closed on Saturday evening, about 46,000 were made online. Last week, the Pentagon scrapped plans to permit service members and other Americans living overseas to cast their votes online.
[February 10, 2004, 10:30]
Is eBay the future of Web politics?
News A panel of Internet gurus gathered on Friday at the fifth annual Votes, Bits & Bytes conference in Cambridge, Massachussetts, held by the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to discuss the impact of Internet business models...
[December 13, 2004, 10:45]
E-voting source code posted online
News VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, published the source code for its product online in hopes of garnering additional analysis of its method for verifying the integrity of electronic votes.
[April 7, 2004, 10:55]
Online voting can't be trusted on standard PCs
News Online voting systems that accept votes from any PC, anywhere, escalate the risk. Authentication -- Voters' real-world identities must be strongly proved, and voters must be certain that their votes are sent to a legitimate voting system.
[March 8, 2004, 11:35]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News The experts -- three computer science professors and a former IBM researcher -- said on Wednesday that creating an e-voting system that both guarantees that each person votes once and protects voters' identities is impossible with existing...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
Could Internet voting have saved the day?
News It claims that all votes were counted in minutes and were spilt evenly between Democrat candidate Al Gore and Republican George Bush. They say that encryption, which uses secured digital keys to lock and unlock computer data could be used to...
[November 9, 2000, 13:17]
MPs turn to Web for votes
News The question is whether working the Web will be worth 5 percent more votes for you in 2005. The Conservative MP added that, by encouraging constituents to email him, he had collected around 3,000 email addresses -- which will be useful when he next...
[October 30, 2001, 13:06]
UK's first online voters go to the polls
News An e-voting trial being held this weekend will let people cast their votes online for next month's local elections. They will be able to vote online by visiting the www.yoursayyourway.org.uk Web site between 9pm Thursday 25 April and 9pm Saturday...
[April 26, 2002, 16:25]
Abbey Road looks for new talent online
News The Internet was used to filter votes so that winners were not only the choice of the judging panel, but also of the online population. Abbey Road recording studios has turned to the Internet for new unsigned music talent, enabling Net-savvy music...
[April 23, 2001, 8:39]
Electronic government not to be confused with online
News The reality for electronic voting is registration of votes on a touch-screen at allocated polling stations. However, electronic does not necessarily mean online -- if you live in Bury, Stratford-upon-Avon or Warrington, you will be able to vote...
[February 22, 2000, 15:03]
Protect your privacy when searching online
News It compiles the results, decides which Web sites received the most votes as relevant, and displays the top scorers. AOL's publication of the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users should reinforce an important point: What you type in...
[August 10, 2006, 16:50]
Students defy DMCA to post email online
News Diebold gave at least $195,000 to the Republican Party during a two-year period starting in 2000, and its chief executive, Walden W O'Dell, once pledged to deliver Ohio's electoral votes for President George W Bush.
[November 4, 2003, 8:40]
News Schmooze: Look ma, no wires!
News Strangely, the online poll "debate" has flared up again, this time after Oz telco Telstra admitted its employees rigged a bot to pelt ZDNet Australia polls with pro-Telstra votes. Indian romantics to pour out love online
[February 1, 2002, 13:05]
AOL and Time Warner to merge
News Under the terms of a definitive merger agreement approved by unanimous votes at meetings of each company's board of directors, Time Warner and America Online stock will be converted to AOL Time Warner stock at fixed exchange ratios, the companies...
[January 10, 2000, 10:10]
Tech industry cheers Bush pick for DoJ
News Although Ashcroft is likely to face contentious confirmation hearings, Democrats are not expected to muster enough votes to derail the nomination. Several members of the tech industry are cheering president-elect Bush's pick for attorney general...
[January 5, 2001, 8:46]
Enemies of the internet named
News The protest has gathered over 17,000 individual votes in 24 hours, and began on Tuesday. Civil liberties group Reporters Without Borders has released its annual list of "Enemies of the Internet" — regimes the group claims restrict freedom of...
[November 8, 2006, 13:09]
New ICANN head promises greater openness
News He said the voting process was very vulnerable to "branch stacking", and pointed out that in North America and Europe the number of people who voted was in the thousands, while in South East Asia the number of votes was in the millions.
[March 20, 2003, 10:58]
Apple, Google and Symantec top loyalty stakes
News While the results of the survey are likely to please Apple, Google and Symantec, it should be noted that the votes were collected last year, since when each company had suffered some blows to their reputations.
[July 13, 2006, 16:40]
US Report: Can government handle Starr report Web traffic?
News Once the full House votes on the resolution sent to the floor by the Rules Committee, the report can be made public. But perhaps as early as today, at least part of it could be available online, and observers agreed the material could draw an...
[September 11, 1998, 8:44]
