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Daily Archives Monday, November 2009

Afghan presidential runoff scrapped

In an interesting round of developments, Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of the Afghan runoff election scheduled for this coming weekend. Because of the lack of a challenger in the runoff election, the Afghan Independent Election Commission declared Hamid Karzai the winner of the presidential election. Here are details from the BBC. It’s [...]

Posted 02 November 2009 † Michael Alvarez § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Scantegrity II voting system to be used in tomorrow’s Takoma Park (Maryland) election

VTP colleague Ron Rivest passed this press release along to me this morning. I look forward to hearing more about how things go when they use Scantegrity II in tomorrow’s election in Takoma Park:
Update: the MIT Technology Review had a lengthy story yesterday about the Scantegrity II system.

Posted 02 November 2009 † Michael Alvarez § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °