10 IT agenda items for the first US CIO
Obama's appointment of Vivek Kundra marks an important first step for rectifying the nation's concerns about IT.
e-voting - News, Features, and Slideshows
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Are design issues to blame for e-vote 'flipping'?
Are some touch-screen voting machines really "flipping" votes from one candidate to another, or are the voters who claim their votes are being changed just wrong?
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Open source: How e-voting should be done
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin
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Eight ways technology has shaped the US elections
Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 US elections -- and it isn't just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we've seen technological advances used both for good, such as using Short Message Service to announce a vice presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice presidential pick's private e-mail account. In this story, we'll take a look at the eight techiest moments of the 2008 presidential race, including YouTube debates, viral videos and e-voting controversies.