E-Voting Machines Register Problems
Rough Start For Touch-Screen Voting Machines Scattered glitches as e-voting gets biggest test Super Tuesday puts electronic voting to test
Category «E-Government»
New GAO Report Critical of USDA IT Security
Information Security: Further Efforts Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses at USDA. GAO-04-154, January 30. Highlights.
FDA Launches New Website on Heart Health
Welcome to FDA’s Heart Health Online: “This new web site gives you reliable information about the products used to prevent, diagnose, and treat cardiovascular disease. It includes full descriptions and patient instructions for many medications, medical devices, and diagnostic tests for cardiovascular disease.”
More Concerns About Security of E-Voting Machines
Electronic Vote Faces Big Test of Its Security: “Millions of voters in 10 states will cast ballots on Tuesday in the single biggest test so far of new touchscreen voting machines that have been billed as one of the best answers to the Florida election debacle of 2000. But many computer security experts worry that …
GPO Launches Deep Linking Tool for CFR Citations
Code of Federal Regulations: Linking to Documents: “Documents that exist within the CFR on GPO Access cannot be bookmarked. In order to link to these documents, a unique URL string must be created. This string consists of six elements: the URL of the cgi script which retrieves the document the CFR Title the CFR part …
Deep Linking Tool for GPO Access Databases Introduced
Help: Linking to Documents on GPO Access: “Documents that exist within databases on GPO Access cannot be bookmarked. In order to link to these types of documents, a unique URL string must be created. This string consists of three elements: the URL of the cgi script which retrieves the document the Database Name which contains …
DHS Establishes Joint Regional Information Exchange System (JRIES)
From the press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as part of its Homeland Security Information Network initiative, announced today the expansion of its computer-based counterterrorism communications system to all 50 states, five territories, Washington, D.C., and 50 major urban areas to strengthen its flow of threat information. This communications capability will deliver to …
Arizona Launches Corporate E-Filing
For-Profit Corporations Can File Annual Reports On-Line “All corporations doing business in or from Arizona must file an Annual Report with the Arizona Corporation Commission. In its ongoing effort to make the filing and updating process easier for corporations, the Commission is launching an on-line E-File feature. For-profit corporations will be the first group to …
Online Directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, from the CIA (links to countries in alphabetial order)
Effective June 1, French Gov’t Will Post New Laws on The Web
From Stéphane Cottin in Paris, this link to a February 21 posting from ServiceDoc. Info on the publication and enactment of “an Ordinance on the value of the electronic proclamation of Acts and regulations….after June 1st 2004, French Law c[an] be enacted only with publication on [the] Internet.”
Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century
This new book, by Bev Harris, may be purchased via this link, or downloaded, chapter by chapter, from the links as follows: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Appendix, …
Work of Suspended Gov’t Data Mining Project Continues
AP reports that applications developed to collect, store and mine personal information on U.S. citizens, thought to have been discontinued with the termination of funding for the Total information Awareness program, have continued under the jurisdiction of other agencies.
