machine-envy

Stef Magdalinski got in touch to let me know that following my NS piece about MPs playing the system on TheyWorkForYou.com, he was invited to go head to head with Emily Thornberry MP on BBC Radio 4’s Today in Parliament. Steve Bowbrick has the mp3.

This week’s NS column is on e-voting, with a mini-interview from Jason Kitcat:

“In October, the Department for Constitutional Affairs announced plans for a series of e-voting pilot trials during the May 2007 local elections, and invited councils to submit proposals. Although the Birmingham postal vote fiasco sufficed to exclude postal balloting from the pilot projects (along with SMS and digital TV schemes), local councils were invited to experiment with remote internet voting, as well as the use of electronic voting and counting machines inside polling stations.”

Read it here. NS launched their new website at the beginning of this week, and the good news is there’s no subscription barrier anymore. Congratulatoins and welcome to the internet!

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