e-voting

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• 10 IT agenda items for the first US CIO

  Obama's appointment of Vivek Kundra marks an important first step for rectifying the nation's concerns about IT.

• US Officials: Early voting could improve e-voting

  In what may be a low-tech answer to a high-tech issue, US election officials say early voting across the nation may have led to fewer Election Day e-voting problems in many states this year.

• E-voting '08: Problems, yes, but it could have been worse

  Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several US states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.

• E-voting groups are watching a handful of US states

  Pamela Smith, a longtime critic of electronic voting machines, is worried more about long lines on Tuesday, election day in the US.

• Are design issues to blame for e-vote 'flipping'?

  Are some touch-screen voting machines really "flipping" votes from one candidate to another, or are the voters who claim their votes are being changed just wrong?

• Open source: How e-voting should be done

  "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin

• Eight ways technology has shaped the US elections

  Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 US elections -- and it isn't just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we've seen technological advances used both for good, such as using Short Message Service to announce a vice presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice presidential pick's private e-mail account. In this story, we'll take a look at the eight techiest moments of the 2008 presidential race, including YouTube debates, viral videos and e-voting controversies.

• US readies e-voting systems as election approaches

  With about four weeks to go before the US presidential election, states across the US are preparing for heavy voter turnout that could cause problems for local elections officials and electronic voting systems.