Innovator Devises Way Around Electoral College
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A professor of genetic programming at Stanford has concocted a plan for states to skirt the Electoral College.
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When the election comes around, political parties push to get out the vote. This often entails a canvassing process where volunteers go door-to-door, frequently with imprecise information. A little-known start up is determined to challenge that assumption by offering an intelligent approach to canvassing.
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Voters didn't buy him as a diehard conservative, so the former governor is now trying to be himself -- a goofy nerd who knows how to make the economy work &#13;&#10;
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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Planning an election is difficult even under the best of circumstances. As one United Nations consultant remarked, it&#39;s &quot;the largest logistical operation that a country undertakes
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Presidential Guidester polls voters, matches their positions with those of candidates.
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Karl Rove, the architect of President Bush's re-election, is now in a position to realize his goal of consolidating a Republican electoral majority for a generation to come.
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Election Day is less than two weeks away, but so far technology has yet to make more than the occasional cameo appearance on either presidential candidate's priority list.
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From advocating for gay rights to pushing for stem cell research, life beyond the governorship appears to be full of possibilities for James E. McGreevey.
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A group of scientists is making an unusual foray into presidential politics.
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When Californians go to the polls, they won't simply be choosing a US president, they may also redraw the scientific map and make their state a global hub of embryonic stem cell research.
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There&#39;s an unusual urgency to the electoral process this year, reflected in higher attendance at campaign rallies, record viewership of presidential debates and soaring voter registration, not to mention an increase in heated debates over the dinner table
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Inside the battle for a critical chunk of votes
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The Democratic candidate has marshalled star power as never before in a campaign. And he's putting them to work.
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The prospect of another close U.S. presidential election has focused new attention on the Electoral College, which actually chooses the winner, but the renewed calls for change are likely to fail as they have hundreds of times in the past.
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In an American presidential election where image counts more than ever before, if one candidate has a hamster story, the other one does too.
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How the former Democratic candidates are reinventing themselves