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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 …
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities a fact sheet and a new report, Analysis of the President’s New Budget. “Between 2000 and 2004, the budget declined by an amount equal to 6.6 percent of GDP, from a surplus of 2.4 percent of GDP to a deficit of 4.2 percent of GDP. This was …
From the Federal Register: February 6, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 25), Page 5693-5702: “The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is announcing final regulations that set rates and terms for the public performance of a sound recording made pursuant to a statutory license by means of certain eligible nonsubscription transmissions and digital transmissions made …
“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]
President Bush Announces Formation of Independent Commission “Today, by executive order, I am creating an independent commission, chaired by Governor and former Senator Chuck Robb, Judge Laurence Silberman, to look at American intelligence capabilities, especially our intelligence about weapons of mass destruction…I’m also naming, today, Senator John McCain; Lloyd Cutler, former White House Counsel to …
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, …
“E-mail communication to and from The Washington Post was disrupted yesterday after its washpost.com Internet address was shut down because the company failed to renew its $35 annual registration.” [Link] See also this internetnews.com article.
Directory of Federal Law Libraries in the D.C. Metropolitan Area, January 2004.
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 …
Mercury News reported on IBM’s WebFountain Advanced Text Analytic Solutions, which according to this IBM overview, “enables access to multi-terabyte data stores of unstructured and semi-structured data. This includes internet data, weblogs, bulletin boards, enterprise data, legacy data, licensed content, newspapers, magazines and trade journals.” The article states that the application is currently gathering data …
From the Project for Excellence in Journalism, this overview of ePolitics 2004: A Study of the Presidential Campaign on the Internet: “The goal [of the study] was to get an early look at what major web sites were offering citizens who were looking for election news and to evaluate how that had evolved from four …
The link to this article from CQ’s Homeland Security subscriber publication, titled TSA Asks Media to Expunge Public Testimony on Airport Security Problems comes via Secrecy News. It states that TSA requested the removal of two pages of unclassified hearing testimony, presented last November, from the online archives of Federal Document Clearing House (FDCH), a …