Tag Archives: voting

There’s lots of talk about the importance of getting out the vote. Yet there seems to be little discussion of existing models that could make that happen. Many countries have almost complete voter turnout at elections. Bolivia is one such country. I’m a permanent resident of Bolivia and have seen …

“Voter Technology: A Reimagined Future”, a presentation at SXSW, focused on bringing election technology into the 21st Century. The speakers included Diego Bernal, a social worker and member of the Texas House of Representatives for San Antonio, and Peter Jackson, Public Sector Strategy Lead at IDEO, a design and consulting company based in San Francisco. Their goal: Use modern technology to facilitate the registration and voting process. They covered the motivations, possibilities and issues surrounding technology and voting.

Learn four different ways to get your vote on during American Idol season 12.

Compromise in the name of bipartisanship is no virtue when the other side refuses to play along. No apologies to Barry Goldwater.