kaip writes “Finland piloted a fully electronic voting system in municipal elections last weekend. Due to a usability glitch, 232 votes, or about 2% of all electronic votes were lost. The results of the election might have been affected, because the seats in municipal assemblies are often decided by margins of a few votes. Unfortunately, nobody knows for sure, because the Ministry of Justice didn’t see any need to implement a voter-verified paper record. The ministry was, of course, duly warned about a fully electronic voting system, but the critique was debunked as ’science fiction.’ There is now discussion about re-arranging the affected elections. Thanks go to the voting system providers, Scytl and TietoEnator, for the experience.”
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After failing yesterday when a late-day selloff hit the market, today the buyers were determined. Asia proved that its markets could finally rally and the rest of the world followed suit. The markets had enough buyers this day that the worst consumer confidence on record and another poor housing number were swept as “yada yada yada, tell me something I don’t know.” The markets were also more hopeful that Ben Bernanke and friends at the FOMC will drop rates by 50 basis-points Wednesday.
Are you better off than you were a year ago? Probably not. Since then, global markets have lost roughly half, or 
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