The internet or the Internet?
The Associated Press Stylebook has declared internet and web should be lowercased. Other style guides are also insisting on the downcasing of internet, and you can see the change appearing daily in major media. Vint Cerf, recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet”, and I don’t agree with the transformation. The word internet first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1974. […]
Election 2016
The Pepperdine School of Public Policy & the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership have developed a 2016 Presidential Election conference. Election 2.016 will take place on October 14 in Malibu, CA and will explore how technology is changing the way voters engage in the election process. I will be there on a panel which will explore […]
Businessweek said Today’s Computer Voting Is Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete
Today’s Businessweek did an excellent job of reporting about our broken election system. The story focused on the 10-15 year old voting machines we use across America. I had written in Election Attitude about this and many other problems in our registration and voting systems, but Businessweek drilled down deep into the history and future […]
Internet Voting at DACS
Digital Politics: Podcast about Internet Voting
Karen Jagoda,President at E-Voter Institute, interviewed me earlier this week for Digital Politics. She asked really good questions about what is holding back Internet voting. You can listen to the podcast here. Election Attitude – How Internet Voting Leads to a Stronger Democracy
