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For veterans, the My HealtheVet website has implemented the first stage of an electronic personal health record, with new features that provide registered users with the ability to create and update personal health care records online, inclusive of personal information, military health history, medications (prescription and other), medical events, tests, and allergies.
From Prof. Robert Vanderbei, Princeton University, this interactive map detailing the election return results by country, in blue and red, using data from USA Today and the U.S. Census database. [thanks k.b.]
My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County on November 2, 2004 by Avi Rubin: “Voting machines that are vulnerable to wholesale rigging can still perform perfectly normally. It is possible that nobody exploited the vulnerabilities this time around, and it is also possible that there was fraud or serious error, but that they …
“Making Web data permanent – Uniform Resource Names can help users find government data no matter where it’s moved online, a group says.” [Link] Primary resource: Recommendations on Open Interoperable Standards for Search Identifiers [This draft document will be retired on completion of a recommendation by the U.S. Federal Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI), …
National Committee for Voting Integrity Election Reform Recommendations (pdf) Related news: Computer Loses 4,500 Votes in North Carolina, Defective software ‘lost’ votes (Florida), and Group finds voting problems across South.
From the Bureau of the Public Debt, the following data, as of November 3, 2004: Debt Held by the Public – $4,332,224,143,554.05 Intragovernmental Holdings – 3,097,310,844,198.64 Total – $7,429,534,987,752.69 Related resource: Financial Audit: Bureau of the Public Debt’s Fiscal Years 2004 and 2003 Schedules of Federal Debt GAO-05-116, November 5, 2004. Highlights: “At the end …
Proposed rule, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Federal Register, November 3, 2004: “As part of NARA’s Records Management Initiatives to redesign Federal records management, NARA has determined that Federal agencies should be allowed to dispose of short-term temporary electronic mail (e-mail) record (e.g., those with a retention period of 90, 120, or 180 days), …
Press release: “The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announces the availability of electronic forms for submitting Madrid Protocol related documents. Now a U.S. trademark owner may file a single online application with the USPTO in English, based on an existing U.S. trademark application or registration, pay the fees in U.S. …
The tips for voters mentioned in this posting are worth taking the time to review prior to entering your polling place. Related reference: the Election Protection Hotline, at 1-866-OUR-VOTE.
Content available via FirstGov.gov for Citizens: Voting and Elections The Basics Contact Elected Officials Electoral College History Learn About Candidates Legislation and Reform Register to Vote and Go Vote Volunteering and Contributions
“The new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Information survey…shows that internet users have greater overall exposure to political arguments, including those that challenge their candidate preferences and their positions on some key issues.” [Link] Link to the report, The internet and democractic …
According to this AP article, e-voting manufacturers have submitted portions of their software code, on CD, to the National Software Reference Library (NSRL), exclusive of “their proprietary source code.” This data is not available to the public. Previous postings on e-voting.
