MetaFilter posts tagged with democracy and vote

Turkey votes today

homodigitalis — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:40:20 -0800

Secular or islamic society? Kemal Atatürk - the Father of modern day Turkey - is watching closely and so is it's secular minded military. Is the country inching closer to Islam or Democracy? A 90% (!) turnout of the 42 million voters is to be expected for this important decision. Al Jazeera has a insightful special covering the event.

Hacking Democracy

Espoo2 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:01:46 -0800

Hacking Democracy. A frightening and well-made full-length HBO documentary.

Diebold

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:06:42 -0800

Diebold boss resigns pending fraud investigation

This is what demockery looks like!

dinsdale — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:48:00 -0800

Project Censored places "Distorted Election Coverage" at number 3 on their list of ignored news stories of the last year. In more recent ignored news a Diebold insider speaks out (which security guru Bruce Schneier considers "sensationalist" but "good information") - just as Diebold shares plunge and top executives flee. In July Diebold's voting machines were rejected by the state of California after "possibly the most extensive testing ever on a voting system" revealed a high incidence of crashes and paper jams. Not to mention the undocumented backdoor in Diebold's GEMS vote tabulator. Meanwhile, in Ohio, two officials of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections have been indicted by a grand jury on charges that they "did not permit a random selection of precincts for the recount and it did not let witnesses oversee the opening of the sealed ballot cases and the first recount of the votes." And John Conyers is urging Americans to oppose a proposed national ID voting requirement, which he calls a "21st Century poll tax". Is this what democracy looks like?

teh hill.

delmoi — Sat, 28 May 2005 02:26:06 -0800

Hillary Clinton? The progressive side of the blogsphere is a twitter with news that 53% of the public would vote for Hillary. What do you think?

Increasing the vote virally

liam — Thu, 06 May 2004 11:08:07 -0800

Strive for Five wants to infect the US with a voting virus.