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Internet voting still faces hurdles in US

Shop online. Bank online. Why not vote online?

Technology / Other

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 8

Study shows voter turnout can be increased with simple word change

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by social psychologist Christopher Bryan and his colleagues at Stanford University shows just how easily people can be manipulated using their own vanity; by doing nothing more than changing the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Europe-vs-Facebook group gathers comments in privacy battle

The campaign Europe-vs-Facebook, run by an Austrian law student, said Thursday it had gathered the 7,000 comments required for the social networking website to review its privacy policy.

Technology / Internet

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer scientists take over electronic voting machine with new programming technique (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 7

Computer scientists deploy first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system

Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 12

Fair and accurate elections, statistically speaking

The political controversy surrounding the Electoral College -- the institution whereby we elect the president of the United States -- is as old as the republic. In spite of recent contentious elections that ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Potential for odd election outcomes with ranked choice voting system, says mathematician

"Instant runoff" voting – which San Franciscans will use next week to choose their new mayor, county sheriff and district attorney – requires voters to rank their three top choices in each race, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Michigan students get DC vote site to play song

(AP) -- University of Michigan students hacked a prototype D.C. elections voting site and programmed it to play their fight song, prompting election officials to temporarily take it down.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

India's electronic voting machines are vulnerable to attack (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic voting machines in India, the world's largest democracy, are vulnerable to fraud, according to a collaborative study involving a University of Michigan computer scientist.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Questions linger in US on high-tech voting

A series of problems with electronic voting machines has raised fresh questions about election technology as newer computerized systems gain ground for the 2012 US election.

Technology / Other

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

How a candidate moves influences how you vote (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The perceived health of an election candidate can predict how people will vote according to recently published research- and voters can form opinions about how healthy a candidate is based solely on the way ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is smartphone technology the future of US elections?

With more and more Americans upgrading to smartphones, and as smartphone capabilities continue to improve, even the U.S. government is considering innovative ways to harness this advancing technology. Human factors/ergonomics ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

D.C. hacking raises questions about future of online voting

For the upcoming election, Washington, D.C., was preparing to allow some voters to send their ballots in over the Internet. It's a good thing election officials tested the system first.

Technology / Other

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oscars to introduce electronic voting

Oscars organizers said Wednesday they would introduce electronic voting to select Hollywood's top films and stars from next year, in the latest reform of the elite awards show system.

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cryptographic voting debuts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT’s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5