General election 2010: Big increase in postal voting could mean delayed result. The result of the general election may not be confirmed until late on Friday because the electoral system is struggling to process verification checks on a record number of postal votes, officers have warned.
Councils have reported applications for postal votes up by 60% in some areas, and with a new system of checking signatures and dates of birth against applications – and only 11 days between the deadline for applications and polling day – administrators say there could be delays. What happens to the voting slips used in the UK? Postal voting surge brings warnings of electoral fraud. Police have received at least 50 complaints about serious voter fraud in advance of this week's elections amid warnings that the rapid rise of postal voting is making the system vulnerable to abuse.
Accusations range from political activists putting pressure on people to mark their party's box on the postal vote form, to phantom voters being registered by candidates and their supporters to farm votes. The problems have emerged before most postal votes have been returned. Most of the alleged abuses relate to the council elections in England, which coincide with the general election. In London the Metropolitan police have received 28 complaints across 12 boroughs and launched five investigations – one in Ealing and four in Tower Hamlets, which has a history of problems with electoral fraud. Michael Meyer-Resende and Michel Paternotre. "It does not matter who votes, it matters who counts," Joseph Stalin is said to have remarked.
While Stalin did not practise democracy, he understood political power. Elections are most easily stolen at the point when votes are counted and tallied. This can be impossible to prove, as the recent elections in Iran have shown. While the published results of Iran's presidential election are widely disputed, claims of fraud have been difficult to substantiate because so many steps took place behind closed doors. The only remedy against this increasingly fashionable method of electoral fraud is transparency, which should be promoted forcefully in the interests of democracy and conflict prevention. Lack of transparency in elections has already cost many lives and undermined political stability beyond Iran.
Earlier that year at least 200 Nigerians died in violence related to elections whose results were called "magic" by the EU's chief election observer. None Dare Call it Stolen. Whichever candidate you voted for (or think you voted for), or even if you did not vote (or could not vote), you must admit that last year’s presidential race was—if nothing else—pretty interesting.
True, the press has dropped the subject, and the Democrats, with very few exceptions, have “moved on.” Yet this contest may have been the most unusual in U.S. history; it was certainly among those with the strangest outcomes. You may remember being surprised yourself. The infamously factious Democrats were fiercely unified—Ralph Nader garnered only about 0.38 percent of the national vote—while the Republicans were split, with a vocal anti-Bush front that included anti-Clinton warrior Bob Barr of Georgia; Ike’s son John Eisenhower; Ronald Reagan’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, William J. Yet this ever-less-beloved president, this president who had united liberals and conservatives and nearly all the world against himself—this president somehow bested his opponent by 3,000,176 votes. GPS Data. From Processing This page presents a Processing library to help you read and manipulate GPS data in the GPX format.
Only basic information (latitude, longitude, elevation and time) is parsed but this should cover most uses; you will need to adjust the library if you need to support GPX extensions. A GPX file is an XML file with a collection of GPS Tracks inside. Each GPS Track has a name, and is a collection of GPS Track Segments. Each segment is a collection of GPS Points with latitude and longitude as well as an elevation and timestamp. First, import the library and declare a global instance of the GPX object. import tomc.gpx.*; // declare a GPX object GPX gpx; Then, inside setup(), instantiate the GPX object, and tell it which file to parse.
//initialise the GPX object gpx = new GPX(this); // parse test.gpx from the sketch data folder gpx.parse("test.gpx"); // or a URL Finally, in your draw() function, loop through the tracks and waypoints and draw them however you would like. How To Use A GPS Enabled Smartphone As A Tracking Device. GPS is one of the more frequently overlooked enhancements in consumer technology.
It’s at least as useful and interesting as Wi-Fi, but often taken for granted. That’s a shame, because it can be incredibly useful, even in older smartphones. One potential covert use is GPS tracking. A GPS connection from a mobile phone can be used to pinpoint its location, and by extension, the person or vehicle carrying it. Recording GPS tracks. Recording GPS tracks requires a GPS Receiver with the ability to save your location.
A GPS Receiver is a device which allows you to accurately pinpoint your position, by receiving radio signals from GPS satellites. Post Office Ltd. Home. Domino’s lets you stalk your pizza until delivery. What’s with the trend lately towards pizza going high tech?
First we have Pizza Hut letting you text message your orders and now we have Domino’s getting into it by announcing its recently released pizza ordering tracking service. What’s next – flying pies landing on your front door step? The Domino’s Pizza Tracker, much to the annoyance of its pizza delivery drivers, will let customers “follow the progress of their order online from the time they click the ‘Place Order’ button or hang up the telephone until the Domino’s delivery expert is knocking on their door.” To keep their drivers though from feeling like job performance is a huge issue (30 minutes or less?) You won’t find GPS trackers in the pizzas – management stated drive times will vary due to several factors, but you’ll at least know the pizza is on the way. Domino’s Pizza Tracker Share: TAGS: delivery, domino's, food, pizza. Gizmodo. Track your package or shipment with FedEx Tracking.