Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Who would we trust with our votes? Washington Quarter Voting Hijacked . OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Talk about your two-bit schemes. Robotic computer programs stuffed the online ballot boxes in a contest for Washington's official state quarter design over the weekend, forcing technicians to suspend voting Monday while they retooled the Web-based poll. By CURT WOODWARD. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews] I remember the California quarter poll had a similar problem. I'll add a reference when it isn't as late. 11:40:58 PM    comment [] In the Cast of Characters, GSA nominee Founder of Reston Tech Firm Nominated to Head GSA . The founder of a high-tech company in Northern Virginia has been nominated to be the next head of the General Services Administration. By Stephen Barr. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews] This federal nominee is a woman who has interesting recent activities: Doan sold her company in July and has since spent much of her time working on the search committee for a new president of Vassar College and on projects for the Shakespeare Theatre Company here, White House spokeswoman Erin Healy said. Privacy Note: When I post from RSS feeds from the Washington Post newspaper, I get an invisible insertion of a doubleclick ad. I consider this a privacy violation and carefully remove the "doubleclick" code from the HTML. I didn't volunteer or agree to post their ads (or I woud skip the Washington Post as a news source), because I don't want Doubleclick tracking me or my readers. 11:36:07 PM    comment []

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