"Erased Voters' Gaffe May Force Changes by Election Commission
2012-05-28T02:31:34Z

The ballot must remain free and open to all, said Cohen, who had made similar requests for DOJ scrutiny following a glitch in the August 2010 countywide ... records on the Election Commission s official computers contained the full ...

Md. Election Board Looks at Online Ballot Marking
2012-05-30T17:45:27Z

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC ... domestic voters to request absentee ballots over the Internet. As a result, almost 80% of 11,375 absentee voters that received their 2010 ballots online were domestic, civilian voters ...

Election Battlegrounds: Was 2008 a Blip, or the Leading Edge of Change?
2012-05-29T11:27:15Z

During both the primary process and the general election ... a series of weekly Internet video addresses. Obama tried to quit smoking several times, sometimes using nicotine replacement therapy, and, in early 2010, Michelle Obama said that ...

Ken Clarke: The Tories would not win an election now
2012-05-29T05:57:58Z

In December 2010 Clarke, in a move to cut prison numbers, said that a Conservative Party election pledge that anyone caught ... No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100 percent secure, however.

IMF chief riles Greeks as crisis election looms
2012-05-28T05:44:51Z

ATHENS - Political leaders in Athens and thousands of internet users have ... after telling an election rally: "Nobody can humiliate the Greek people during the crisis." Greece made a deal in 2010 to receive hundreds of billions of euros ...

Japan Group Seeks Web-based Election Campaigning
2012-05-25T20:43:11Z

The party campaigned on a promise to lift the ban on Internet use for the 2009 general election, which brought the DPJ to power for the first time. In 2010, the DPJ and its opposition rivals, the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito ...

Recall Fever: As Scott Walker Fights To Keep His Post, Recall Elections Spread Across U.S.
2012-05-30T10:43:07Z

Wisconsin's recall will pit Walker, a Republican, against Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, whom Walker defeated in the state's 2010 gubernatorial election ... online and spread the word via Internet petitions, Spivak expects more ...

The endgame: Will tying Walker to criminal investigation be enough to beat him?
2012-05-30T10:57:26Z

Scott Walker in the recall election June 5? They have pointed to the massive ... a small amount was used to renew the domain names of Walker's campaign websites. In a bizarre side note, the investigation into the embezzlement also led to the arrest of ...

State election deals blow to Germany's Merkel
2012-05-14T03:59:45Z

The Pirate Party has grown in strength recently with its calls for transparency and internet freedom ... The Left, which won 11 seats at the last election in 2010, failed to pass the 5% threshold and are out of the state parliament. When the CDU and ...

German opposition wins state election
2012-05-14T03:09:39Z

That gave them a majority in the state legislature, which they narrowly missed in the last regional election two years ago. Meanwhile, support for Merkel's party plunged to 26.3 percent from 34.6 percent in 2010, its worst showing in the state ...

German state election deals blow to Angela Merkel's party
2012-05-14T12:56:38Z

Merkel's party mustered about 26% of the vote in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a drop from 35% in 2010 and 45% in 2005 ... The upstart Pirate Party, a group primarily devoted to Internet freedom, rode its recent surge in popularity to a nearly ...

Angela Merkel, Austerity Policies Dealt Blow In Local German Election
2012-05-14T03:09:39Z

DUESSELDORF, Germany, May 13 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in an election in Germany's most ... down from nearly 35 percent in 2010, and the worst result in the state since World ...

German leader's party swamped in key state election
2012-05-14T08:03:08Z

That gave them a majority in the state legislature, which they narrowly missed in the last regional election two years ago. Support for Merkel's party plunged to 26.3 per cent from 34.6 percent in 2010 ... transparency and internet freedom but lacks ...