New research suggests there’s a good deal of work to be done before a
general election could be held using new technology to gather votes.

The report from De Montfort University was commissioned to explore
barriers to e-voting and to suggest ways of overcoming them in order to
pave the way for an e-enabled general election some time after 2006.

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The performance of police websites is to come under scrutiny in a new
research project from Socitm, the Society of IT Management.

Socitm represents senior ICT managers in local authorities and other
public services, and already conducts an annual test of local authority
websites to see if they meet relevant e-government and good practice
criteria.

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