November 2, 2004
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Brookline’s turnout
At 4pm, 1,300 people in precinct 13 had voted. During the previous election – off-year, to be sure – about 300 people voted total.
Rebecca on CNN
When I get back from voting, I really look forward to reading Rebecca MacKinnon’s article on what’s wrong with CNN. Rebecca was a CNN bureau chief and now is a blogomaniac (um, I mean a thought-leader on blogging and journalism), so this should be good…
Digital government events
The National Center for Digital Government, part of the JFK School of Government, has a bunch of interesting event this fall, including this series.
World leaders for Bush
Andrew McLaughlin of the Christian Science Monitor has a piece about the world leaders backing Bush, beyond Putin and Blair. (Thanks to Ethan for the link, and for the information that “It’s hard to overstate Clinton’s popularity, at least in West Africa.”)
How blogs will change the world
Foreign Policy has a kickass article on how blogging will change the world, by Daniel W. Drezner and Henry Farrell. It’s not online yet. But it does have the good sense to cite Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman (see “Why Africa Supports Kerry“) and Joi Ito who “reportedly visits 190 blogs regularly and averages five hours a day reading and writing blogs.”
Unplug the modems
BlackBoxVoting reports that there’s evidence that an election in King County, Washington, was hacked 6 weeks ago. The site urges election officials to unplug the modems from the voting machines now:
There is no down side to removing the modems. Simply drive the vote cartridges from each polling place in to the central vote-counting location by car, instead of transmitting by modem. “Turning off” the modems may not be sufficient. Disconnect the central vote counting server from all modems, INCLUDING PHONE LINES, not just Internet.
Vote or shut up
If you’re an eligible American and you don’t vote, I don’t want to hear from you about politics about the next four years.
If you don’t know where your polling place is, this site does. If you want to call people in other states to remind them to vote, go to VoterCall.
[Thanks to Josh for the polling place link…and for 12 months of working to make this a better place to be human.]
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