In this age when we are looking to social entrepreneurs to improve the world let's celebrate the open source developers who are working to shine a light on how the country votes.
David Segal | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
That Diebold might be on the verge of disappearing from the political landscape could be mistaken for reason to celebrate. Its successor would manage elections for 70% of voters.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
America's love story with capitalism is crystallized in the merger of two computerized voting machine giants like nothing that has ever been seen before in American history.
Rob Richie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The United States' largest voting equipment vendor just bought the second-largest, Diebold. 120 million registered voters live in jurisdictions using one of these two companies' systems
AP | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
NORTH CANTON, Ohio — ATM maker Diebold Inc. has sold its much-criticized U.S. voting-machine business to its bigger competitor, Election Systems...
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy
Build a $1.5-ish billion taxpayer-funded stadium, charge those same taxpayers $2600 to see a game, don't create the promised park for local kids (because they're poor). Now look around. Guess what? You're rich!
Brad Friedman | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
Where is all the furor over the $12 billion sent over to Iraq as pallets of cash, which then simply disappeared into that trillion dollar rat hole without accounting or explanation?
Brad Friedman | Posted 12.08.2008 | Home
Setting aside whether or not a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate is a good or bad thing, the undecided races at this hour are quickly summarized below.
Ars Technica | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business
Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold an...
Brad Friedman | Posted 12.02.2008 | Home
Now that the touch-screen voting machine that Oprah voted on failed to properly register her vote on the screen, perhaps we may finally be able to get rid of these damned things.
Brad Friedman | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
A county clerk in Colorado has finally done the right thing for the voters by removing a touch-screen voting machine from service
Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
A small number of people could easily program DREs to flip votes, and the evidence of this crime would be safely locked inside the machines.
David Horton | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
How can it be that America, with its claim to be the first modern democracy, retains a system of managing elections that would be thought unduly cynical even in the worst of third world dictatorships?
David Horton | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
How many times have you heard, when a politician is confronted with an unfavorable opinion poll, "the only poll that counts is the one on November 4" ...
Natasha Chen | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home
When the C-SPAN broadcast of the final presidential debate ended, Democrats at the San Mateo County headquarters ceased their cheering, laughing and a...
Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
We need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the country is on the wrong track, why can't we have an election where 80 percent vote for Barack and 20 for McCain?
Brad Friedman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
I sat down with Ohio's Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, for an exclusive, detailed one-on-one interview while in Denver at the Democratic National Convention a few weeks ago.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
So what's going to go wrong at the ballot box this year? What ever happened to those good ol' punch cards and Diebold electronic voting machines?
Sarah Granger | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home
The Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act being reviewed by the Senate today is clearly a mixed bag, inadequate to address the problems fair-voting advocates say continue to bedevil the system.
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment
On Tuesday night's "American Idol", Season 7's crushingly obvious finalists David Archuleta and David Cook each sing their last three songs, and their...
James Freedman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
Our election machinery is flawed and vulnerable. It's a telling comparison-- the amount of money we spend on fair elections versus the amounts we spend on campaigns or on bringing democracy to Iraq.
New York Times | Michael J. de la Merced | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The United Technologies Corporation made public on Sunday an unsolicited $3-billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller mac...
Ian Spiegelman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The underhanded tactics my co-author Allen Raymond employed to win elections for ten years are by no means confined to one party, and they permeate every level of electioneering.
Allen Raymond and Ian Spiegelman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
From HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION: Confessions of a Republican Operative: The first sign of trouble at my sentencing hearing came when the judge cut off my...
Joel Epstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology