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Press release, July 16, 2004: Blackwell Halts Deployment Of Diebold Voting Machines For 2004: “Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today halted deployment of Diebold Election Systems’ electronic voting devices in Ohio for the 2004 General Election. The decision is based on preliminary findings from the secretary of state’s second round of security testing …
Several sources (Wired, the ACLU) report that Homeland Security’s controversial CAPPS II program may be terminated by the TSA. However, there is speculation that a similar project may appear in future.
As posted on the LLSDC listserv, by Rick McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian, Federal Reserve Board: “Pursuant to Section 8 of the GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-271; 118 Stat. 811; 7 pages) enacted on July 7, 2004, the “General Accounting Office” has been redesignated as the “Government Accountability Office“. For text …
Alphabetical List of Online Government Documents (archival materials) [David Dillard]
“They’ve been trying for more than a decade. They’ve built more than 2,000 databases to do the job. They’re spending nearly $19 billion a year. But, despite all that effort, Defense Department officials still haven’t come up with a way to track the Pentagon’s supplies, finances or people, according to a new congressional report.” [Link, …
The press release and the decision (20 pages, PDF).
Today the House Administration Committee held a hearing on Electronic Voting System Security. See this article on the hearing , which includes a statement fromTadayoshi Kohno of the UC San Diego Cryptography and Security Laboratory – “It is possible to have secure-enough paperless machines…But we dont have those machines today, and we cant have them …
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. Democratic campaign party websites are using open source apps, and the Republicans are using Microsoft. See also Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, (56 pages, PDF), a study by GW’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet.
According to the Center for Digital Governments’ 2004 Digital Counties Survey, the list of the top 10 digital county governments is led by San Diego County, California, followed by Johnson County, Kansas, Prince William County, Virginia, Roanoke County, Virginia, and Charles County, Maryland.
From the CMS press release, June 30: Electronic Medicare claims that do not meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards will be treated as paper claims and paid more slowly than HIPAA-compliant electronic claims beginning July 1…” See also Hammer Coming Down for HIPAA Compliance
“The Government Open Code Collaborative is a voluntary collaboration between public sector entities and non-profit academic institutions created for the purpose of encouraging the sharing, at no cost, of computer code developed for and by government entities where the redistribution of this code is allowed.” About the GOCC
From the press release: “To increase security and improve public confidence in the voting process, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law (BC) today released a new report providing specific recommendations for elections officials planning to use electronic voting machines in the 2004 elections.” …
