Ori Eisen, founder, chairman and chief innovation officer of online security firm 41st Parameter, makes the case for taking voting online in this Gigaon blog post, It’s Time to Take the Election Online.
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Should criminals be allowed to vote?
October 12, 2012 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: news, Voting.This idea of denying people who have been convicted of crimes the right to vote has been debated for a couple of centuries now. It is viewed by many as retribution for an act against society. Should it be forever?
Music superstars sing to encourage young women to vote
October 8, 2012 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: news, Voting.[youtube]http://youtu.be/32CmasVnvu4[/youtube]
Kansas territory, 1855: A case of fraudulent voting and its consequences
October 2, 2012 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: news, Voting.The case of the Kansas territory demonstrates that Americans think of voting as a central act of democracy. They like to have confidence in the results of voting, no matter what those results are. When that confidence is shaken, there are consequences.
Voter fraud and the Lincoln-Douglas election
September 27, 2012 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: news, Voting.Voters at that time did not vote directly for candidates for the U.S. Senate. The race was over who would be elected to the state legislature, which had the power to name the senators from the state. Lincoln lost the election to Douglas not because there was a sudden flood of illegal Irish voters into the electorate but more likely because the incumbent senator began with such a decided advantage in that electoral system.
Get-out-the-vote: the non-nonpartisanship of it all
September 24, 2012 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: news, Voting.The underlying tone of one is that expanding the electorate will help President Barack Obama get re-elected. The underlying tone of the other is that putting more legal controls on who votes and when will aid the Republicans and Mitt Romney.