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**3.6 Politics and government** • Political process: voting and elections, lobbying, open government and free movement of information • Government administration: record keeping, tax collection, policy implementation • Legislation: policy development, enactment, enforcement and analysis • Police: DNA data collection, video surveillance • Military: cyberwarfare, smart weapons development, espionage • Rebel and terrorist use of IT
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Unlike most manual voting machines and methods, DRE Voting Machines do not leave any Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) after someone casts a ballot. This means that voters do not see a printed out verification that they selected their intended candidates, and that the machine accurately processed their vote. This obviously can create a certain amout of uneasiness on the part of individual voters, since they cannot confirm that their vote was cast at all, or even for their candidate. Another problem with the lack of any kind of VVPAT, is that it makes a recount (much like the one in Florida in 2000) nearly impossible, because due to software problems, there is no way to verify whether or not votes would be recounted accurately. Ohio plans to implement laws requiring the use of DRE's with VVPAT's by the 2006 mid-term elections, which would certainly settle some of the fears of the concerned citizens and voters.
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Software Bugs
The same software that makes DRE machines incredibly user-friendly also makes them incredibly prone to software errors and bugs that can effect the elections in many ways. Bugs are existent in all software, and there is no way to possibly verify whether or not the software is bug-free before the voting process begins. Bugs oftentimes are not distributed equally throughout the entire election, meaning that if Candidate A suffers the loss of 20,000 votes from a software bug, chances are that Candidate B will not suffer the same loss, giving Candidate B a magical 20,000 vote advantage over his opponent. While errors of that magnitude would certainly be recognized by election officials, more subtle discrepancies might not show up, and these little discrepancies may be what matter most in the outcome of the election. Obviously in 2000, the errors that were present in Florida had major impacts on the turnout of the election. Here are some examples of software errors, from various sources that illustrate how these errors can go unnoticed.

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__**Presenting the Issue**__ E-voting is the use of Information and communications technology, to vote online rather than making citizens gather in one place to do the voting. The issue that is raised in the article is the use of technology and communication to vote in the internet for the political parties they like. However A problem with feeding back results from two online voting stations forced the council to double check no one had been able to vote twice. Although E-voting makes people’s lives easier and more convenient there are still some gaps for errors and frauds in the system.

As technology is improving day by day, life has been more convenient. From the old paper ballots, now it has turn into an E-voting machine (D.R.E) which stands for direct recording e-Voting system. The D.R.E system is new therefore it is not at its full potential as a result of this, hackers and computer geeks can get into the program to change results. To be able to vote you must have an identification card which contains personal information on. With a paper-based system, the electronic component is usually a tabulation device. This means that votes are counted on an electronic system, which is much faster than a manual count. Some ballot printing systems resemble DRE systems. Voters use a touch screen or similar electronic device to make their choices. When the voter submits his vote, a printer attached to the device produces a physical paper ballot. An election official or volunteer takes all the paper ballots produced to a centralized location for counting once the polls close. A separate electronic device optically scans these ballots and tabulates the results. However the results can be wrong because the government will not know if anyone has voted twice or even more which will make the results unfair. “Critic has again argued that the possibility of fraud is still achievable for example a programmer or a computer geek who has accepted bribes. Connecting two vendor’s systems together may cause either or both to behave in an unintended way. “(Strickland, J and Bonsor. K) "E-voting systems actually provide less accountability, poorer reliability and greater opportunity for fraud than traditional methods. People assume that electronic voting is just the same as other technologies we use in everyday life, like banking or airline ticketing, but there are crucial differences.” (Strickland, J and Bonsor. K, How E-voting works, retrieved on 3 October 2007)
 * __Backgrounds to the issue__**

Around the world, many nations are moving toward more advanced electronic voting systems. The goal of these voting techniques varies from nation to nation. Some nations are attempting to increase turnout in elections, others seek to reduce election fraud.

The impact of the E-voting has made peoples live a lot easier. They will not need to go and queue for along time in order to select the party they like, now all they have to do is find an E-voting machine. “Turnout rise from 29% two years ago to 52% in May.” This clearly shows that it is working however it is costing the government a lot of money but it is said to be cheaper in long term.
 * __Evidences of impact__**

Another impact will be the voter’s fraud. By having E-voting systems enables voter’s fraud to be easier. As computer “geeks” and programmers can find there way into the program and change the results if they like and even we are not yet sure if the company who made the E-voting system is biased or not. “Voters could perhaps be pressured by over-enthusiastic canvassers or might even try to sell their votes, warned Mr Ritchie.” As you can see some people doesn’t care about who runs the country, they can go off and sell there votes however if it was to be a normal voting system, they will be invigilators who checks if you’re the correct person.

By Mick Pilunthanakul


 * =What different e-voting systems are available? Give examples.= ||
 * 1) What different e-voting systems are available? Give examples.
 * 2) Why are some electoral systems moving towards e-voting?
 * 3) How will e-voting change the electoral process?
 * 4) What problems are there with e-voting?
 * 5) How can these problems be solved?

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November 7, 2008, //7:49 pm//=How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics= By CLAIRE CAIN MILLERThe Obama campaign’s use of the Internet has been cited as playing a large role in upending how presidential races are fought. (Credit: Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times) One of the many ways that the election of Barack Obama as president has echoed that of John F. Kennedy is his use of a new medium that will forever change politics. For Mr. Kennedy, it was television. For Mr. Obama, it is the Internet. “Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president. Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not have been the nominee,” said Arianna Huffington, editor in chief of The Huffington Post. She spoke Friday about how politics and Web 2.0 intersect on a panel with Joe Trippi, a political consultant, and Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. (Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich had been invited to balance out the left-leaning panel, but declined, according to John Battelle, a chair of the conference.) Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign -– which was run by Mr. Trippi –- was groundbreaking in its use of the Internet to raise small amounts of money from hundreds of thousands of people. But by using interactive Web 2.0 tools, Mr. Obama’s campaign changed the way politicians organize supporters, advertise to voters, defend against attacks and communicate with constituents. Mr. Obama used the Internet to organize his supporters in a way that would have in the past required an army of volunteers and paid organizers on the ground, Mr. Trippi said. “The tools changed between 2004 and 2008. Barack Obama won every single caucus state that matters, and he did it because of those tools, because he was able to move thousands of people to organize.” Mr. Obama’s campaign took advantage of YouTube for free advertising. Mr. Trippi argued that those videos were more effective than television ads because viewers chose to watch them or received them from a friend instead of having their television shows interrupted. “The campaign’s official stuff they created for YouTube was watched for 14.5 million hours,” Mr. Trippi said. “To buy 14.5 million hours on broadcast TV is $47 million.” There has also been a sea change in fact-checking, with citizens using the Internet to find past speeches that prove a politician wrong and then using the Web to alert their fellow citizens. The John McCain campaign, for example, originally said that Governor Sarah Palin opposed the so-called bridge to nowhere in Alaska, Ms. Huffington said. “Online there was an absolutely obsessive campaign to prove that wrong,” she said, and eventually the campaign stopped repeating it. “In 2004, trust me, they would have gone on repeating it, because the echo chamber would not have been as facile,” Ms. Huffington said. The Internet also let people repeatedly listen to the candidates’ own words in the face of attacks, Mr. Huffington said. As Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary words kept surfacing, people could re-watch Mr. Obama’s speech on race. To date, 6.7 million people have watched the 37-minute speech on YouTube. The Internet also changes the way politicians govern. Mr. Newsom learned that last year when he ran for re-election. He showed up at a rally and didn’t see the usual crowd. His aides told him the audience was made up of his Facebook friends. “I said, ‘What’s Facebook?’” Mr. Newsom recalled. These days, Mr. Newsom is “obsessed with Facebook.” It strengthens his connection with his constituents and their connection with the causes they care about, he said. The constant exposure can, of course, turn against politicians. Ms. Huffington’s “off the bus” team of 10,000 citizen journalists caught candidates saying things that embarrassed them later, like Mr. Obama’s “guns and religion” remark. Now, she said, “there is no off-the-record fund-raiser.” Mr. Newsom says he is fearful of the constant need to watch his tongue. “I have to watch myself singing, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco’ on YouTube and it can’t go away. I am desperate to get it to go away,” he said dryly. “There will be a lot of collateral damage coming to grips with the fact that we’re in a reality TV series, ‘Politics 24/7,’” Mr. Newsom said. That’s a good thing, Mr. Trippi said. “This medium demands authenticity, and television for the most part demanded fake. Authenticity is something politicians haven’t been used to.” He predicted that this real-time Internet contact with constituents will also change the way the president of the United States governs. He recently proposed that Mr. Obama start a Web site called MyWhiteHouse.gov to talk with citizens. (Mr. Obama just started a different site, Change.gov, on Thursday to keep in touch with people during the transition.) “When Congress refuses to go with his agenda, it’s not going to be just the president” they oppose, Mr. Trippi said. It will be the president and his huge virtual network of citizens. “Just like Kennedy brought in the television presidency, I think we’re about to see the first wired, connected, networked presidency,” Mr. Trippi said. >> >> >> >> >> > >
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 * 1) **1. November 7, 2008 8:14 pm Link**
 * Finally government of the people not just the political people.**

> **— Ajay**
 * 1) **2. November 7, 2008 9:58 pm Link**
 * Way back in 1973 when the Internet was invented by by American computer scientist Vinton Cerf as part of a project sponsored by the United States Defense Department (ARPA) he would have never imagined that it would become a tool for ’soci-political’ revolution in the country.**

> **One may even call the new administration of Obama,as a Government of the internet(netdriven polling),by the internet and for the internet(e-governance)** > **— Arun Mehta**
 * 1) **3. November 8, 2008 12:47 am Link**
 * The ability of Obama to raise massive amounts of cash without having to spend wasteful time fundraising was key to his 50 state strategy. The next revolution is the ability of local politicians to get nationwide support from members of their own party – just as Tinklenberg got when he almost defeated Michelle Bachman in Minn. A lot of people with $20 to $50 to give can be a very powerful thing.**

> **— Goony Goo Goo**
 * 1) **4. November 8, 2008 1:37 am Link**
 * that cool.**

> **keep it up obama.— robert**
 * 1) **5. November 8, 2008 3:21 am Link**
 * Just read where David Axelrod will be a senior advisor to Obama in the White House, with access to Obama at any time. It was on the BBC news website.**

> **And so the Wizard of Oz story continues, with Axelrod the man behind the Obama curtain, who should NOT be ignored.** > **Don’t mistakenly assume the Internet will be ‘interactive’ with allthingsbarack dot com. The ‘communication’ will continue to be one-way, Obama to America, as in adaptive propaganda. The social impact will be like untreated creeping ick on tropical fish.** > **The only saving grace will be that those convinced by Dr. Frankenstein (Axelrod) that their self-image, -esteem, and -worth are barack-enhanced will be the first to turn on Obama, when post-election governing reality sets in, and the real Obama cannot fulfull all the hopes, dreams, and ambitions invited onto him via the nebulous ‘Yes We Can’.** > **— dom**
 * 1) **6. November 8, 2008 9:25 am Link**
 * The way Obama and his team used the Internet is unprecedented in the presidential elections. Internet was sure more than a marketing tool for them. David Talbot of Technology Review wrote an article a couple of months ago and it is a good read.**

> **What is Obama’s team going to do with all that data is a good question. As a president the way that you would collect and use the data will be different. Change.gov is put together really well.** > **Collagist.com** > **— Collagist**
 * 1) **7. November 8, 2008 11:16 am Link**
 * This article is a concise and clear summation of the brilliant use of the Internet and technology strategies by the Obama campaign.**

> **I have been studying Presidential election campaigns since Nixon v. Humphrey in 1968…** > **And THIS Obama campaign is, by at least a factor of two, the single most modern, most disciplined, and most organized campaign I have ever studied.** > **Extraordinary – and it bodes well for his coming Presidency!** > **— Duckley**
 * 1) **8. November 8, 2008 11:17 am Link**
 * I have been studying Presidential election campaigns since Nixon v. Humphrey in 1968…**

> **And THIS Obama campaign is, by at least a factor of TWO, the single most modern, most disciplined, and most organized campaign I have ever studied.** > **Extraordinary – and it bodes well for his coming Presidency!** > **— Duckley**
 * 1) **9. November 8, 2008 11:49 am Link**
 * I think that Barack Obama used what was available to him and didn’t harm anyone by advertising through You Tube. I believe he set a great example on how to save money and keep a tight budget since the unemployment rate is getting lower in the U.S. He is also keeping up to date since almost everything everyone does is through the internet. The Internet does not affect how a politician governs. I think this is just an excuse to explain other peoples ways of governing. I think people should just accept the fact that Barack Obama won his presidency fair and square, and it was because his supporters believed in him and he did a better job in persuading he can do a lot more for his country than any of the other candidates.**

> **— Brenda Ramirez**
 * 1) **10. November 8, 2008 1:41 pm Link**
 * What Gov’t agency is in charge of the .gov web address? My assumption is that this site could be nixed by the president if he wanted. He must really want to get out of Washington!**

> **— Michael Camiolo**
 * 1) **11. November 8, 2008 2:06 pm Link**
 * At the beginning of this week, the Columbia Journalism Review published a very interesting story examining differences between Obama’s and McCain’s Internet strategies.**

> **@http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/blogged_down_in_the_past.php— lpl9**
 * 1) **12. November 9, 2008 2:52 am Link**
 * One of the things I noticed early on in the Democratic race was that Obama had an evident stronger support than Mrs. Clinton on the Internet. It was farily common that positive Obama stories as well as negative Clinton stories were thrust to the front page of Digg.com, and not the other way around. This headstart was very important because it offered social proof to the uninformed.**

> **Obama’s Internet campaign is worthy of being documented, analyzed and commented.** > **So I would like to ask the editors and readers of this fine news service that if they know of any book in print, or report that shows a view from the inside of the campaign, to let us know about it. I bet there are many thirsty people out there.** > **My email is david.taboada at katalink.com and @DavidTaboada on twitter.** > **— David Taboada**
 * 1) **13. November 9, 2008 7:53 am Link**
 * The use of the internet as a force for both social and political change can not be udnerestimated. As we forward over the next few years we may pause and wonder where ideas originate and howthe propagate. An overlooked, so far, pehomenaof this last campaign was the Ron Paul revolution. I have never seen anything like it. A coalition that spanned the entire spectrum of political thought. Stitched together via the internet and centered on the ideas of Dr.Paul. Remarkable! Will those idas move forward? I think so!**

> **— rick**
 * 1) **14. November 9, 2008 8:50 pm Link**
 * I loved participating on the internet by donating money to Barack Obama everytime the right wing nuts said some horrible terrible untrue thing about him. My friends and I e-mailed each other,and it gave us a sense of power and fun to donate every week 10.00,or 20.00, and one time 50.00.**

> **By the way I’m a 66 yr old democrat and this is the first time i have donated money and volunteered in a political campaign. I haven’t been this excited and proud since John Kennedy.— Lynn Glor**
 * 1) **15. November 10, 2008 1:10 am Link**
 * the main reason obama’s campaign (and dean’s in 2004) were so successful in using the internet to accomplish so much was not b/c of anything their particular campaigns did. it was b/c of the nature of their supporters- white, young, educated, progressive, in cities across the country, like austin, san fransicko, boston, etc. you could’ve taken obama’s internet strategy and staffers and replaced them with hillary clinton’s and it wouldn’t have made her internet efforts any better. the republicans can’t successfully adopt the approach/tactics of obama’s internet campaign b/c their demographics are different- old, white, rural. This is the same reason why liberals can’t do talk radio – and don’t tell me air America, b/c it has been a big no ratings failure that declared bankruptcy and is backed by big money which keeps it afloat. Who listens to talk radio, where do they listen? People in cities who ride mass transit to work don’t listen to it- who lives in cities? Liberals. Who lives in suburbs/exurbs/rural areas? More conservative types who generally commute to work by car, allowing them the chance to listen to rush Limbaugh or sean hannity. So I’m tired of hearing about obama’s “revolutionary” internet strategy. There is/was no such strategy, other than a base of supporters who are more tech-savy than avg joe white guy.**

> **— monty, york, pa**
 * 1) **16. November 10, 2008 1:27 pm Link**
 * Mybarackobama was a great breakthrough in its interactivity, but there are still software bugs that need to be worked out. For example, it was easy to report the results of phone calling, but almost impossible to report the results of canvassing. More needs to be done to eliminate some of the frustrations.**

> **— Rod**
 * 1) **17. November 10, 2008 4:03 pm Link**
 * Breakthrough Internet campaign? That’s all fine and dandy, but Obama promised to not use public funding to get elected. And then…he did.**

> **Again, like them all, anything to get elected.** > **Our country should make it illegal to use public funds to get elected. it’s bad news for America when you can get a whole mess of cash together and buy up air waves, webspace, banners, T-shirts, weblinks, popups, SNL shows, radio spots, photoshoots with Rolling Stone with public citizen money.** > **Candidates should be set to a cap on the top number they can get in cash.** > **When did we become a nation where image was everything? A long time ago…but now you can buy a whole lot more power it seems. “The man” is still green -always was.** > **— B.D.Kuchera**
 * 1) **18. November 11, 2008 6:00 am Link**
 * “The campaign’s official stuff they created for YouTube was watched for 14.5 million hours,” Mr. Trippi said. “To buy 14.5 million hours on broadcast TV is $47 million.”**

> **this is nonsense, because for those 14,5 million on broadcast tv you would reach more viewers, than just 1 per computer, and on the other hand it suggest 3$ an hour. maybe the nmber is good if you insert an average audience numbe,r but then the senstence is weird.** > **— rick**
 * 1) **19. November 11, 2008 10:34 am Link**
 * Great, now all those people who have nothing better to do then click on a digg button all day will be driving our political agenda.**

> **— Yeah**
 * 1) **20. November 11, 2008 11:09 am Link**
 * “Breakthrough Internet campaign? That’s all fine and dandy, but Obama promised to not use public funding to get elected. And then…he did.”**

> **Actually Obama promised to use public funding, and then he did not… might want to do a little fact check on that one.** > **“Candidates should be set to a cap on the top number they can get in cash.”** > **So suppose that rule is adopted, and there is a cap. Suppose the cap is reached, and I want to support a candidate. So it would be illegal for me to give money to the already maxed-out candidate? That idea sniffs of being patently unconstitutional and unfair to me — it inhibits and closes off the open democratic process which we have.** > **— Myles Johnson**
 * 1) **21. November 11, 2008 11:16 am Link**
 * Not to mention that it gives unequal preference to some voters over the others — i.e. those who donate money to the hypothetical candidate before the hypothetical fundraising cap is reached, as opposed to those not allowed to donate, just because of an arbitrary “cap.”**

> **Unequal preferences = No good** > **— Myles Johnson**
 * 1) **22. November 28, 2008 4:07 am Link**
 * Obama has shown that internet is really powerful!. The older people now have respect for the internet. OBSNetwork.com**

> **— Manny Fernandez**
 * 1) **23. December 2, 2008 6:51 am Link**
 * It’s a brave new technological world…**

> **If you’re not using the internet, you’re missing out on the evolution of mankind where millionaires are being made at the fastest pace than ever before in history.** > **— Dario Montes de Oca**
 * 1) **24. January 6, 2009 11:06 am Link**
 * Actually it was Eisenhower who brought in the Television presidency.**

> **— Bob**
 * 1) **25. April 6, 2009 7:05 pm Link**
 * Most of intersting subject.The truth,after conecrn in that subject,I took it as final research in my final class of mass communication in universtity of baghdad.**

> **Still trying to collect the raw materials to enter new level of writing the draft,than the final.** > **Hope who is intersed nd i would be apprecated to send any clue related to my e mail:hammadieci@yahoo.com** > **regards— hamaad**
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Contributors
=====Nick Bilton=====

Lead Bits blogger, New York
Technology and society, Internet, futurism, video games, business technology =====Joshua Brustein=====
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Web Producer, New York
Internet, media, technology and society, policy and law. =====Damon Darlin=====
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Technology editor, San Francisco
Consumer electronics, consumer issues, pricing =====David F. Gallagher=====
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Deputy technology editor, New York
Internet, blogs, search, cellphones =====Miguel Helft=====
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Reporter, San Francisco
Search, Internet, online marketing, Google, Yahoo =====Steve Lohr=====
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Reporter, New York
Enterprise computing, economics of technology, Microsoft, I.B.M. =====Claire Cain Miller=====
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Reporter, San Francisco
Start-ups, e-commerce, venture capital, Twitter, eBay, digital culture, technology and society =====Matt Richtel=====
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Reporter, San Francisco
Consumer electronics, video game business, Silicon Valley, Internet gambling, Internet pornography =====Suzanne Spector=====
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Deputy Technology Editor, New York
Technology and society, consumer issues, digital culture =====Ashlee Vance=====
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Reporter, San Francisco
Enterprise computing, software, network technology, semiconductors, trends in corporate technology =====Jenna Wortham=====
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Reporter, New York
Internet, Web start-ups, digital culture, communications, convergence, N.Y. tech scene
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Recent Posts
November 05 (3)

Netgear Wants to Wirelessly Connect New Televisions
Netgear, the maker of wireless products, hopes to expand its business by offering wireless services for Internet-ready televisions. November 05 (1)

One on One: Vivek Kundra, U.S. Chief Information Officer
A one-on-one interview with Vivek Kundra, chief information officer of the United States, discussing cyber security, data.gov and social networking. November 04 (6)

Apple Invites Developers to Submit Mac Apps
Apple is inviting developers to submit ideas for the new Mac App Store. November 04 (11)

Location Services Have Not Caught On, Report Says
The number of people using location-based services does not appear to be growing, according to the Pew Research Center. But Facebook may be changing that. November 04 (2)

AT&T’s Bet on Health Technology
Health technology spending is likely to keep growing, despite changes in Washington. AT&T is the latest company to bet heavily on this business.

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