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“VerifiedVoting.org champions transparent, reliable, and publicly verifiable elections in the United States.” The site includes links to federal legislation on e-voting, voting technologies that provide paper audit trails, announcements on public meetings concerning e-voting security, news from around the web, an e-newsletter, and a list of “established vendors of computerized vote tabulation systems.”
From this release: “The Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Public Access to Records of the Judicial Branch will hold a hearing for public comment on its proposed changes to the rules on Thursday, February 12.” Preliminary Recommendations of the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Public Access to Records …
At E-Gov’s Web-Enabled Government Conference on February 5, the Excellence.gov “Top 5” award winnners were announced as: Small Business Administration’s BusinessLaw.gov Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (Edgar) Department of Health and Human Services, National Practitioner Data Bank Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency Department of Defense, Defense Information …
Primary Education: Election Reform and the 2004 Presidential Race, by electionline.org and The Century Foundation (48 pages, pdf) “Millions of American will return to the polls in the coming weeks to cast ballots in the 2004 primaries. This is the first presidential contest since the 2000 election, which exposed flaws in America’s voting process, and …
“California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Thursday announced measures to improve election security in the wake of a report describing how votes can be easily manipulated by hacking into an electronic voting system used across California.” [Link]
On February 4, Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner announced the launch of New Online Corporate Services that “allow residents, businesses, legal professionals and other customers to: reserve corporate names, get basic corporate information, confirm the status of Delaware corporations, and, get filing history and other information on Delaware corporations.” Corporate Name Reservation and Information service, …
The Pentagon has terminated its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), “a project aimed at providing Uniformed Services members and overseas citizens the ability to register, vote and check their status throughout the absentee voting process.” [Link] As reported by several sources including Reuters, a determination was made that the e-voting system was rife …
From Michael Ravnitzky, “a link to the substantive portion of the NLRB FOIA Manual, the link to the procedural portion of the NLRB FOIA Manual, and the link to the procedural appendix to the NLRB FOIA Manual.” From the MemoryHole.org, this link to the Uncensored Version of National Labor Relations Board “10(j) Manual”
From the FTC press release today: “The notice provides a background summary of FACTA and the rulemaking, contains an overview of the public comments received, and includes a section-by-section analysis of the final effective dates rules..” Federal Trade Commission (16 C.F.R. Part 602) and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 C.F.R. Part …
National Governors Association (NGA) Launches Governors Legacy Project: “NGA launched a user-friendly comprehensive database of all past and present U.S. governors. Called the “Governors Legacy Project,” this service allows users to search for valuable information about governors…users [can] learn more about these state policymakers by searching a variety of question fields – including term of …
New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced a two year pilot program to test an online dispute resolution system to address approximately one third of the more than 20,000 claims and lawsuits filed against the city annually. “The system, called Cybersettle, accelerates the resolution of claims and legal disputes by allowing parties to …
Congressional Directory, 108th Congress, January 2004 Online Revision. Key word search or browse the content.
