After the 2000 election of hanging chads and Bush v Gore and a totally non-precedential Presidential decision by the Supremes, I discovered that the Caltech/MIT Electronic Voting Project (https://www.vote.caltech.edu) met sometime at MIT in … [Read more...]
Brookings Institution on Coronavirus and Election 2020
I’ve been publishing a free weekly listing of Energy (and Other) Events around Cambridge, MA for more than a decade as a listserv and a webpage (http://hubevents.blogspot.com). It covers public events in the community and in the local … [Read more...]
Environmentalists Are Awful Voters
Nathaniel Stinnett launched the Environmental Voter Project (http://environmentalvoter.org) in 2015 with the mission of “identifying inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters.” He spoke on … [Read more...]
Early voting in Mass? How about nationwide?
When can we get early voting here in Massachusetts? How far away, realistically, is our state from adopting something so pragmatic and sensible? Also, do you think early voting will ever be available in every state? … [Read more...]
Occupation: To Be or Not To Be…Coopted
(This is a cross post of course from LiL, but I am hoping it has bigger appeal than just my little corner of electoral politics. This is a big movement, with so much potential, I felt compelled to express my concerns for it. Slight edits in … [Read more...]
Should Voting Machines be Randomly Audited?
In this age of high-tech elections, with strong passions on all sides, it's essential that you know that the optical scan voting machine that counts your ballot works right every time. They have to be reprogrammed with a new memory … [Read more...]
Election Commissioners work in the same Elections Department office at Boston City Hall.
Election Commissioners work in the same Elections Department office at Boston City Hall. How is it that they can be on the Board and also work in the same department office? … [Read more...]
Mass. should go Google, at least for locating voting locales
Today I used the State Secretary's website. It's supposed to inform the good people of Massachusetts where to vote. The key phrase is "supposed to." Now, I know where to vote. I was using the website out of curiosity from a technical and … [Read more...]
On Asking Experts, Part Two, Or, What’s An LBGT Voter To Do?
A monk asked Ma-tsu [Baso]: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is Buddha" A monk asked Ma-tsu: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is not Buddha" --From the book "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings", … [Read more...]
On Why Voting Matters, Or, Could You Outrun The Toxic Red Flood?
"...Oui, ma foi, c'est un bougre déterminé..." --A sailor aboard the French ship Héros describing his Admiral, Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, 1783. Quoted from the book "Command at Sea", by Oliver Warner. So here's the long and … [Read more...]
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