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The perils of an electronic voting system
Life, James Hein, Published on 13/07/2016
» I was talking to some friends in Australia about the recent election and by the time you read this, a week-and-a-half later, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared victory for his conservative coalition. The reason it has taken so long besides it being very close is that the process is still a manual one. People put numbers in boxes with a pencil and other people then count all of the numbers entered on the ballots to eventually work out how many people voted for which people in what order. To make it more complicated Australia has a preferential voting system that can see someone with 0.5% of the vote get a Senate seat due to redistribution rules. The discussion was around how difficult it would be to set up an electronic voting system.
Pope to join Bieber and co. on Instagram
AFP, Published on 16/03/2016
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will make his Instagram debut on Saturday, joining the likes of Justin Bieber and Cristiano Ronaldo on the image-sharing forum under the handle Franciscus, the Vatican confirmed Wednesday.
Memorable events in decade of Twitter
AFP, Published on 18/03/2016
» WASHINGTON - Over its 10-year history, Twitter has marked numerous world events and created its own unique moments.
Turkey to probe massive 'personal data leak'
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» ANKARA - Turkey's authorities launched a probe Wednesday into an alleged leak of the personal data of some 50 million citizens which threatens to compromise the information security of much of its population.
US election dominates 2015 Facebook chat
AFP, Published on 10/12/2015
» NEW YORK - The US presidential race, dominated by firebrand Republican contender Donald Trump and former first lady Hillary Clinton, was the most discussed topic on Facebook this year, the site announced Wednesday.
France's Marine Le Pen removes James Foley picture from Twitter
AFP, Published on 17/12/2015
» PARIS - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday removed a photograph of the decapitated body of US journalist James Foley from her Twitter account after his parents accused her of using it for political gain.
Key Yahoo investor Starboard demands management change
AFP, Published on 06/01/2016
» NEW YORK - A key investor in Yahoo demanded Wednesday that the board of directors undertake a management change and warned it could push for a board shakeup if that did not happen.
Britain to unveil new online spying laws
AFP, Published on 01/11/2015
» LONDON - Britain's government gave the first details Sunday of contested plans to update Internet spying laws to keep pace with the digital age.
Erdogan takes to Twitter to hail poll win
AFP, Published on 03/11/2015
» ISTANBUL - He once wanted to "wipe out" Twitter and compared social media to a "murderer's knife", but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan couldn't resist sending a tweet on Monday to celebrate his party's election victory.
Contribute to election campaign, with a tweet
AFP, Published on 15/09/2015
» WASHINGTON - Twitter announced Tuesday a new feature allowing users to make contributions to a political candidate through a tweet.