Interpol chief's identity stolen on Facebook
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/201358/interpol-chiefs-identity-stolen-on-facebook
Interpol secretary-general Ronald K. Noble recently disclosed that criminals had impersonated him twice on Facebook in attempts to access information on the anti-crime organization's secret operations.
National
An Important New Proposal for Voting Machines
http://blog.verifiedvoting.org/2010/09/20/842
A report released last week by the non-partisan organization, Voting System Failures: A Database Solution, found that in the absence of requirements to report malfunctions, vendors do not keep election officials informed about voting system defects. The report recommends several remedies for this pervasive problem. Among other conclusions, it calls for a searchable national database of voting machine problems to be created and made available to the public.
Officials In The Dark About Voting Machine Glitches
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129866551
One reason is that election officials are often unaware of previous problems with the equipment they use, according to a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.
India: Flap over Indian Electronic Voting Machines
http://quicktake.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/flap-over-indian-electronic-voting-machines/
Fears of the Vindictive State seems to have been misplaced. Instead, we had a judge who echoed, pretty much what 2ndlook said. The judge said,
"if the machine was possessed by the accused for demonstrating only that it could be tampered with, then the accused committed no offence. On the contrary, he has done a great service to the democracy," the Judge said in the bail order.
UK: Data matching to identify Britain's 3.5 million 'missing' voters
http://www.ukauthority.com/Headlines/tabid/36/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=2907
TOWN halls will be urged to take part in 'data-matching' trials in a bid to find Britain's 3.5 million 'missing' voters. The move to plug the gaps on electoral registers was revealed alongside plans to speed up the introduction of compulsory individual voter registration.
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