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Topic: Elections and Voting

  

How the SEC Is Violating My Wife's First Amendment Rights

Over the past 24 months, a deplorable activity in the money management business came to light. It got the name "pay to play" but was just another form of bribery. However, for some reason, the definition of this expanded to include any campaign contributions to any state or local officials.READ MORE

Mayor Bloomberg on New York's New Electronic Voting Machines: "A Royal Screw-Up"

None other than New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called New York's first experience with electronic voting machines--complete with delays, broken equipment, and ill-prepared election workers--"a royal screw-up."READ MORE

Design Thursday: Design for Democracy

If you doubt that design matters, think about the ballot you might have cast on this past Election Day—and then talk to Al Gore. Two years before a blizzard of hanging chads froze Gore out of the Oval Office, a 1998 study found ...READ MORE

Tech Watch: Apple and Google Work on iPhone, Gay Marriage

Ever since the T-Mobile G1 launch, Apple and Google have gotten into bed together to bring more Google features to the iPhone. The tech titans are also collaborating on pushing for equality of same-sex marriages.READ MORE

Can Fox Help Build Palin’s Brand for 2012 Presidential Ticket?

The Alaskan governor turned political rogue, Sarah Palin, announced she will now serve as a pundit at the conservative Fox network. “Analysts say it could be a sign that Mrs Palin is paving the way for a shot at the White House in the presidential race of 2012,” writes Sky News. Political analyst Larry Sabato, also notes “this...READ MORE

How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign

The untold story of how Chris Hughes, today only 25 years old, helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign.READ MORE

Obama's Use of Social Media: Less Than Adequate?

I have lots of thoughts about the Election, and especially the use of technology and social media by the Obama campaign.  My brain is fried from two years of tracking every twist and turn in the campaign cycle, so I don't know how ...READ MORE

Web, White, and Blue

Will young people care about politics? Is America ready for online voting? Can the net save democracy? Those are the questions that beltway veteran Doug Bailey is asking.READ MORE

Republicans Dominate Democrats in Social Media

GOP Senate candidates are trouncing their rivals on Twitter and Facebook, a stunning reversal from 2008. But will that actually translate into votes?READ MORE

While Kenya Votes, Ushahidi Does Its Part

Fast Company catches up with Erik Hersman, the man behind the groundbreaking crowdsourcing tool, Ushahidi, as Kenya holds its constitutional referendum.READ MORE

Branding the Presidential Candidates

Wouldn’t you love to be able to describe your company’s brand in a few words? What if you could say it in just one word? I believe that our presidential candidates can. I usually avoid political comment. But this election ...READ MORE

The Site With 8.64 Trillion Hits in One Day

The day before India's Lok Sabha elections, the country's election commission made a new Web site live to provide election results in real-time. The commisson overbuilt the site, so it thought, readying it for almost 3,000 hits per ...READ MORE

Lessons From the Obama Campaign Part II

Yesterday I began my review of the innovators and strategies that the Obama campaign employed to win the presidency. Here is another tried and true method for success that you can implement into your own business strategy. Coordinate ...READ MORE

Candidates Turn to YouTube for Geo-Specific Ad Campaigns for Mid-term Elections

Google has seen adoption rates for online political ads increase by 800%. Will YouTube's campaign service impact the mid-term elections?READ MORE

Social Justice - Tracy Westen

"Democracy is an interactive form of government."READ MORE

Can Short-Term Brand "Candidate Obama" Transform Successfully Into Long-Term Brand "President Obama"?

A spate of recent articles about the Obama brand have, in my view as an expert on marketing, neglected the brand's strategy and focused its verbal or visual expressions. But far more important is the distinction between the ...READ MORE

The Brand Called Obama

Win or lose, Barack Obama's rise changes business as usual for everyone. Here's why.READ MORE

To Be A Leader, Make Sure You Vote

Yesterday, the fate of Minnesota's Senate seat, undecided since the November election, was finally decided; the margin, out of 2.9 million votes cast, all of 312. Congratulations to Senator Al Franken. In 2000, George W. Bush's ...READ MORE

Education: Bookkeeping, Book Learning, and Earning

I was tempted to call today's post "When Business and Education Collide -- The Sequel": If you want students to learn more math, send them to a school run by a for-profit company. That's the conclusion drawn by a Harvard study of ...READ MORE

Is Democracy Broken?

Should it really cost $200 million to run for President? At what point does the fundraising mean more than the ideas? There's been a huge shift in the way the Internet has affected marketing of all types, and now, for the first ...READ MORE

Brand Obama Thrills Broadcasters with Record Ad Spend, But Cheap Video and Democracy Are the Big Winners

It may be silly season for the Presidential campaigns on television until Election Day, but the Brand Called Obama has been brought to you by the internet.READ MORE

Digital Matters - Issue 32

"Congress and the states have the authority to tax Internet transactions -- but they don't have the votes."READ MORE

All Politics Is Loco

Now that the absurd political spectacle in Cal-ee-fornia is over (at least until the actual attempt to govern begins), the rest of the nation can turn its attention back to the Democratic presidential candidate sweepstakes. And no ...READ MORE

Twitter Vote Report Offers Real-Time Democracy on Election Day

Voters across the U.S. will have a nifty tool at their disposal on Election Day to report their voting experiences through TwitterVoteReport.com, a new monitoring platform co-developed by the blog techPresident and an all volunteer ...READ MORE

Fast Talk: John McCain's Pacemaker

Russ Schriefer Media Director, John McCain Campaign Washington, DC Russ Schriefer, 48, credited as one of George W. Bush's main image makers, is part of the five-member advertising team who will be writing and scripting all of ...READ MORE