Having considered the use of Facebook to capture potential voter data in Social Voting, I was disappointed to find an American report that describes how their citizens are being disenfranchised due to lack of the correct identification. The paper, The Challenge of Obtaining Voter Data, may not be appropriate in the UK but still contains some salutary lessons in not what to do if you want people to vote! Written by Keesha Gaskins and Sundeep Iyer, and published by Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, at 40 pages of PDF at 1.35Mb it is a very thorough exercise.
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The blogger is Mick Phythian, a Research Associate at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K. and former ICT Manager at Ryedale District Council in North Yorkshire, England. He was also a founder member of the Local CIO Council and regional Chair of Socitm.Any opinions expressed on this weblog are purely those of the author.
He is not the Great Emancipator! The Great Emancipator was President Abraham Lincoln. The blog is so-called because some people perceive e-government, transformational government or, heaven forbid, government to be the emancipator of us all...
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