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How internet voting can go wrong
News from America: Small coding mistake led to big Internet voting system failure The main security weakness that let University of Michigan researchers take control over a planned city of Washington, D.C. Internet voting system pilot for overseas voters in 2010 was “a tiny oversight in a single line of code,” … It’s evidence, say [...]
Labour sticks to its support for the Digital Economy Act
Cory Doctorow writes, Harriet Harman, deputy leader the UK Labour Party, has explained her party’s programme for the British Internet: “implement the Digital Economy Act under a clear timetable including getting on with the notification letters.” “Notification letters?” Why yes, those would be the letters notifying you that you have been accused, without proof, of downloading copyrighted [...]
Sometimes a bus is just a bus
When Boris Johnson promised that if elected Mayor of London he would introduce a new Routemaster bus, I don’t think many expected him to interpret that quite as literally as he has. For by the end of his term in office, there won’t be hoards of new Routemaster buses on London’s roads. Not even scores [...]
LibLink: Lynne Featherstone on marriage – this is not gay rights versus religious beliefs
Writing in the Daily Telegraph Lynne Featherstone says: I believe that if a couple love each other and want to commit to a life together, they should have the option of a civil marriage, irrespective of whether they are gay or straight. We are not prioritising gay rights, or trampling over tradition; we are allowing [...]
A Twitter gem for seeing what Liberal Democrats are saying
Liberal Tweets is an aggregator (run by the king of Lib Dem aggregrators, LDV’s very own Ryan Cullen) which displays in one convenient place all the latest tweets from Liberal Democrat members who are using Twitter. If you are one of those but aren’t yet being included, you can email ryancullen - ryancullen.hat.libdemblogs.co.uk.spam.com (this is spam bot hidden email address, replace .hat. with @ and remove .spam.com for the real one) - ryancullen.hat.libdemblogs.co.uk.spam.com (this is [...]
Another step towards ending the waste of two European Parliament locations
Whether it’s the cost, the environmental impact or the disruption to operating the organisation, the continuation of two locations for the European Parliament has few friends. The friends it does have, who think it’s a sensible way of spending time and money to shuttle one institution back and forth between Brussels and Strasbourg, are very [...]
Livingstone and Johnson: a record of unsavoury comments
Funny, pointed and relevant: this is one of the best pieces of campaign artwork I’ve seen put out by the party this year.
* Mark Pack is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and writes a monthly newsletter about the Liberal Democrats.
Shirley Williams: how to sort out the NHS Bill mess
Earlier today I blogged about the odd and dangerous political situation the Liberal Democrats risk being left in – more in favour of the NHS Bill than large parts of the Conservative Party: Arguing that you are the smaller party in a coalition and have achieved some important changes to a piece of legislation that [...]
Should the Liberal Democrats contest elections for Police and Crime Commissioners?
A topic of much debate in the party, the question of whether or not there should be Liberal Democrat candidates in this autumn’s Police and Crime Commissioner elections was also the subject of a piece on The Westminster Hour on Sunday: * Mark Pack is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and writes a monthly newsletter [...]
The failure of David Steel’s Lords reform measure is good news
The attitude of former Liberal Party leader David Steel to Nick Clegg’s House of Lords reform proposals has been lukewarm at best. Although the party he headed up repeatedly called for a democratic upper house, Steel has not been supporting Nick Clegg’s attempt to turn those often made demands into policy. He even signed a [...]
