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Dating, er, rating candidates
Posted at: Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 02:38 AM
A Web site is helping voters make their picks for president based on issues such as health care, the war in Iraq and the economy. Similar to a dating Web site, voters spend about 10 minutes answering more than 50 questions. It then spits out a list of candidates that best match the views of the voter. The Web site, sponsored by AOL and Time magazine, can be found at www.presidentmatch.com.
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Low-tech triumph …
Posted at: Friday, February 6, 2004, 01:49 AM
As voting technology gets increasingly sophisticated, some voters in Michigan’s Saturday caucuses are registering their choices via the Internet. But Tuesday’s South Carolina primary demonstrated there’s still a place for low-tech balloting. Limited to about half the funding it usually takes to put on a statewide election, the state’s Democratic Party pulled off the vote without a hitch, with paper ballots that voters marked with pencils and volunteers counted by hand. Even the most up-to-date part of the process, a computer program that allowed precinct captains to report results by touch-tone phone, was hardly cutting-edge.
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