The Economist has an article this week on why people rig elections. The answer is, because it works really well. As the summary report of the key findings notes:
Using dirty tactics during elections helps politicians that are already in office. If they use illegal practices to win elections, they can expect to be in office [...]
The move from touch screen voting technology to printing paper ballots on demand could potentially lead to long lines of voters at early voting sites in Florida, according to a recent report researched and written by Conny McCormack, an elections consultant to the Pew Charitable Trusts and JEHT Foundation’s Make Voting Work initiative.
McCormack, who from [...]
There’s an interesting story in the Washington Post, “Companies Struggle to Keep Data Safe.” The lead paragraph in the story notes: “A staggering 94 percent of companies admit that they are powerless to prevent confidential data from leaving their company by e-mail, according to a new study from Mimecast.”
But it’s not just corporations [...]
The Boston Globe is reporting this morning that the Mass House did not take up the EDR bill that the Mass Senate had passed:
Major items that lawmakers neglected to take up included whether to allow residents to register to vote on election days, whether the state should ban trans fat oils in restaurants, and [...]
In addition to the reports of fraud that I wrote about in the past few days, there are two additional ones that I ran across this morning.
The first comes from New York, from a report in the Daily News:
An aide to former Queens Assemblyman Jimmy Meng was charged yesterday with rigging voter addresses during a [...]