Links

No public servers are hosting eVote services.

Presently, the challenge is to make it so. We need some to come online.

Voting for Political Elections

http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/applications/article/0,,1301_1008791,00.html

EUROPEANS E-VOTE, Wired article.

UK'S Labour Party's National Executive Committee election in July 2002 had more people voting via the Internet than the telephone.

Offer general administrative support to Kids Voting of Southwest Ohio. You will be assisting with mailings, compilation of training manual and data entry. You set the volunteer hours. Orientation and training are provided. You must be at least 18. Call Jeanne Rolfes at .

Kids Voting of Southwest Ohio, (513) 961-8683 or e-mail kidsvote@infi.net

Kids Voting in Arizona

Idealist.com overview

Bills to Allow Church Electioneering

Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Ways and Means Committee hearing from supporters and opponents of two bills that would allow religious organizations to endorse candidates and spend funds on partisan electioneering activities. http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/775/1/122/

GNU.FREE

Free Referenda & Elections Electronically is a suite of Java-based software programmes for providing heavy duty election services via the Internet. Offering massive scalability, strong security & privacy as well as proper logging.

Tools of Value in Technology

Lyris Content Checker Gratis, submit via web form.

Mailman tutorial for users and subscribers. Mailman is a mailing list discussion manager used in many situations, including at Rauterkus.com/mailman/listinfo.

SiteSell Spam Checker, submit to spamcheck@sitesell.net

Journal of Technology in Human Services has a section on Using the Internet as a Tool for Research edited by Goutham Menon, PDF.

Tools of Value to Freedoms

FreeNet

http://freenetproject.org/

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projects/deliberation/

E-Democracy Links

National (United States) Endowment for Democracy

Earth Mind, Saving the World, Internet, etc. Dan Robinson's perceptions on saving the world, the Internet, the noosphere (knowledge sphere) and everything.

Participation, Political Organisations and the Impact of the Internet

Publicus Net - Stephen Cliff and Public Strategies in the Online Word - E-Democracy E-Book and my "Future of E-Democracy" speech

DO-WIRE archive, http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@tc.umn.edu/ - Submissions: clift@publicus.net

do-code: do-code-subscribe@yahoogroups.com is to move to Mailman soon. Are you able to write other pro-democracy add-ons for Mailman? The do-code archives have a number of ideas and Steven Clift wrote that he'd be glad to plant a few seeds.

Journal for Democracy

e-Democracy - MN a 501(c)(3)

Council of Europe's draft on the "Media role in information-age democracy.
press release from COE

Causing a dust up with various U.S. cyber-libertarians - Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet: http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1017333.html

They seem upset about defining a right of reply: http://www.coe.int/t/e/human_rights/media/7_links/right_of_reply_hearing.asp
More

Worth Watching -- Like a hawk

http://ni4d.org/

Outrage

http://truthout.org/docs_02/020203G.voting.mach.htm

http://www.thehill.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm
Wow! I had never heard or read anything about this. Thanks.
Book list from Peter Shane, CMU, Constitutional Lawyer

The Federalist No. 10 (Clinton Rossiter, ed. 1961).

Stephen Coleman and John G¯tze, Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation (undated)

Alan Buchanan, Political Legitimacy and Democracy, 112 Ethics 689(2002)

Pippa Norris, Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide (2001)

Anthony G. Wilhelm, Democracy in the Digital Age (2000)

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