I love the TED talks series. It constantly throws up interesting ideas that give me pause for thought. Today I watched one that had me questioning my prejudices. I’ve long been against the concept of electronic counting of votes on account of the possibility of subverting them. Dave Bismark describes a cryptographic system that short [...]
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Digital Democracy
Our new Coalition Overlordstm have launched a new web-site to solicit feedback from the citizenry on what laws should be repealed/modified. This is a little more involved than the current option to sign e-Petitions at the number 10 website. The site supports commenting, tagging as well subscribing to feeds for each idea. I’m quite impressed [...]
Election day in the UK
Today is the general election in the UK. It’s the closest race I’ve ever been eligible to vote in and the outcome is far from certain. If you do one thing today please go and vote. That is all.
