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Q: Models and Collections in Angular? I'm coming from Backbone so perhaps my perspective is prejudiced by that but I'm having trouble seeing the best way to model data in Angular. The 2-way data-bind is pretty awesome but past that when I want to have persistent collection and model classes I'm confused.
I'm using to being able to define a collection, say of users, and then being able to call .fetch() whenever I want to update it with new models. As well I can define custom methods on the collection as well as each model.
var users = new UserCollection();
users.fetch();
users.doSomethingCustom()
users.at(0).doSomethingModel();

I've looked at Restangular and ngActiveResource so far and neither one seems to offer the same kind of functionality as I would expect.
Is there something I'm missing or perhaps I'm thinking about this in a non-Angular way?
EDIT: I ended up making my own models/collections very similar to Backbone's if it helps anyone: https://github.com/evanhobbs/angular-models

A: This is indeed a very interesting question,and I'd like people to think about solutions.
In theory,you could stick with Backbone models.It may have a performance cost but.There is no reason it wouldnt work.
Develop your model layer,without thinking about AngularJS.Then you'd have to extend your models and add a listener in your initialize function that would trigger a $rootScope.$apply whenever the model changes,same for any collection you might use.Something like :
/*global angular,Backbone*/
angular.module('ng')
    .value('Backbone', Backbone)
    .factory('AngularModel', function(Backbone, $rootScope) {
        return Backbone.Model.extend({
            initialize: function() {
                this.on('all', function() {
                    if (!$rootScope.$$phase) {
                        $rootScope.$apply();
                    }
                });
            }
        });
    })
    .factory('AngularCollection', function(AngularModel, $rootScope) {
        return Backbone.Collection.extend({
            model: AngularModel,
            initialize: function() {
                this.on('all', function() {
                    if (!$rootScope.$$phase) {
                        $rootScope.$apply();
                    }
                });
            }
        });
    });

function Main($scope, AngularCollection) {
    $scope.collection = new AngularCollection([{
        name: "foo"
    }, {
        name: "bar"
    }, {
        name: "baz"
    }]);
    $scope.addModel = function(model) {
        $scope.collection.add(model);
    };

}

and the view

{{model.get('name')}}

    <form name="model_form" ng-submit="addModel(model)">
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Add model</legend>
            Name
            <input type="text" ng-model="model.name" />
            <input type="submit" />
        </fieldset>

    </form>

Some DEMO HERE
Now in my opinion,AngularJS works better with raw js hashes.But If you need to port something to AngularJS from Backbone,it can be a solution if already have a strong model layer.
EDIT:it might work without the expensive $rootScope.$apply,

A: js-data-angular might be a solution for your problem. It defines collections, their relations and different storage adapters with their fetching functionality.

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In response to a writeup by Sandy Kemsley on a user experince on MDD+BPM at Bank of America.
Thank you so much for sharing this writeup and comment.
Being a researcher on MDD and BPM, I'm glad to see that this recipe is getting more and more attention in the industry.
Being also a (software) analyst and a partner in a tool vendor company (WebRatio) I agree with you that pushing this combination of methodologies to the customers can be painful, because customers are rather conservative in terms of innovation and do not trust tools and approaches that are not in the orthodox mainstream.
However, we also had some really good success stories in making big customers adopt these approaches (see for instance our experiences we shared at BPM 2010 in Hoboken and that will also be published in an upcoming book edited by M. Rosemann and M. zur Muehlen. Presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/mbrambil/web-ratio-bpmindustrialcasesbpm2010 ).
I share with you the concern about setting up weird combinations of tools for addressing BPM with a MDD approach.
In WebRatio, it took us 10 years to come up with a coherent suite of modeling, transformation, and code generation facilities that integrate in a seamless way BPM, data modeling, application modeling, quick prototyping, and code generation for production applications.
Since MDD is a very neat and conceptual approach, I think appropriate toolsuites that correctly deal with the models and their relationship is crucial for granting full benefits of a virtuous model-driven lifecycle.
In response to a writeup by Sandy Kemsley on Rick Hull work on integrated BP and data modeling at IBM T.J. Watson.
Thanks for this overview on Rick's work. I think this is a crucial change of paradigm that companies will embrace sooner or later.
It doesn't make any sense to consider data and processes as separate realms, with different kings and armies fighting at their borders.
I also have been doing integrated modeling of different aspects of applications for a while, not limited to BP and data models, but comprising also other aspects like user role modeling, application logic modeling, user interaction modeling, and so on. In our approach we envision an integrated model driven development (MDD) approach covering all these aspects and providing automatic alignment and quick prototyping.
I strongly believe that model integration, alignment and continuous cross-validation down to the implementation is the only response to the complex needs of today's enterprises.
I would be glad to get feedback on this.
thanks for this post too. I appreciate your work, I think it's big value for the BPM community.
I think traceability is crucial, but may not be enough. What we really need is coherency and alignment of models. The complexity of modern enterprise applications requires several models to describe all the relevant aspects. Design tools should be aware of this and *grant* alignment by construction.
This could be fairly easy for models that deal with the same level of abstraction, while it could be much more difficult when alignment is needed between business and IT models of course.
Furthermore (maybe even more crucial), alignment should be granted between models and implementation.
In my experience, all this can be achieved only through well engineered model-driven development (MDD) approaches.
View more presentations from Sandy Kemsley.
– and we collected feedback.
Guess what? Most of the feedback came from the prototypes.. hence, the business users understood the models but still were not able to focus on the real issues (especially related to exceptional cases).


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" I Was Unable to Cast a Vote on L.A. County's ES&S E-Voting System (Again) Today	"
I Was Unable to Cast a Vote on L.A. County's ES&S E-Voting System (Again) Today
Failure echoes 2008, as two different machines and at least six different failures stymie both poll workers and county officials at my own home precinct...
-- Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG
Two years ago, in June of '08, the ES&S "InkaVote Plus" e-vote system in Los Angeles County misprinted 4 out of 12 of my own votes.
Today, as I tried to vote on the same system, the failure was even worse. Incredibly. And not just because I cover issues of Election Integrity for a "living."
I spent more than two and a half hours not casting a vote on the system before eventually I, the poll workers, and, apparently, the folks at the L.A. County Registrar's central help desk call center, simply gave up. A complete and total failure of the e-voting system for disabled voters in the nation's largest voting jurisdiction. Again. On a system the county spent millions to buy in order to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) boondoggle by allowing disabled voters to cast their votes independently. Complete and total failure.
I did my best to document the disaster as it happened, in real time, on my Twitter feed. But the cell signal was very bad at the polling place, so not everything got out. But here's what happened in detail, and with a few graphics tossed in...
As I did during the state primary in June of 2008, I requested to vote today on the ES&S InkaVote Plus audio balloting system. There is one for each of the two "precincts" in my polling place. In '08, the machine at my "precinct" wasn't working and the poll workers were afraid to touch it, due to exposed wires, so I was forced to vote provisionally on the machine at the other "precinct" inside the same polling place.
This time, the machine at my "precinct" was up and working, though I was the first to (try to) vote on it today, according to the poll workers.
Failure #1: My audio ballot started playing in some kind of Asian-sounding language. Instructions from the precinct chief Hal to push the arrows on the device until I was allowed to select English as my language didn't work. The audio simply kept repeating the same thing to me in Mandarin or Cantonese or Vietnamese, or whatever it was.
After Hal called the County Registrar's office to find out what to do, the system was reset, and the audio instructions finally began for me in English. All was well, it seems...before I noticed that the candidates listed by the audio in each ra1ce did not match the order that I had them on my sample ballot. I began to expect that once I printed out my ballot at the end of the process, I'd discover that it printed my choices onto differently numbered bubbles on the ballot than were supposed to be used in my precinct. By the time I got to the race for the U.S. House of Representatives, my fears were confirmed.
Failure #2: The audio ballot offered me the candidates for the 31st Congressional District instead of my own!
After Hal called the County Registrar's office back again, the system was reset, again, and I started my ballot over. Again, I found that it was offering me candidates in a different order than they appeared on my sample ballot, and then I was again offered the candidates in the CD-31 race. Wrong again.
More calls to the county resulted in my being given two choices by the poll worker at my precinct: Vote manually on a paper ballot, or wait for a poll technician to arrive with a new machine. There was no estimate available as to how long I might have to wait for a new machine to arrive.
I had already been there some 45 minutes by then, but was concerned whether disabled voters in the entire county would also be forced to vote in the CD-31 race instead of their own district --- or, more accurately, forced to vote for candidates which would be incorrectly inked into bubbles, for some other candidate, on the ballots for their own precinct. All of their votes would be recorded incorrectly. Since the majority of voters who use these assistive devices are vision-impaired, they would not likely be able to check which bubbles the computer had inked in on their paper ballot as it was printed (and then put into an op-scanner). They would, unknowingly, vote for different candidates than they actually wanted to --- in every single race.
I came up with a third option: I asked if I could vote provisionally again, on the machine at the other "precinct" in the same polling place. I'd hoped to see if the same problem was on every machine, or I had just gotten lucky on the machine in my own home "precinct."
The same fine gentleman and precinct supervisor who helped me vote back in '08, on that precinct's machine when it misprinted 4 of my votes, was eager to give it another go. So we did. Leading to...
Failure #3: This time, as the poll workers carefully tried to set up the computer to begin the audio balloting procedure (remembering what had happened in '08), all seemed well after I finally began to vote again about 15 minutes later. But when the options came up in the audio ballot for the very first set of candidates in the Gubernatorial race, it became clear I had been given an audio ballot for the Peace and Freedom Party's primary, as opposed to the primary I was supposed to be voting in!
The fine gentleman --- (Dale, who happens to play Thomas Jefferson in a one-man show --- see ManFromMonticello.com for more details!) --- made more calls to the County Registrar's office to figure out what was going on, leading to...
Failure #4: After trying again, and getting the Peace and Freedom Party ballot again, things get murky. One of the poll workers suggested the problem was that they weren't given the codes to specify which party the ballot should be for when loading up the audio ballot. Indeed, I was shown the reference sheet they had for "Operating the Audio Booth" and the "Audio Ballot Codes" for each party were left blank!...
The poll worker told me she had asked about that during the training, but had been told that the numbers would be there on Election Day. They weren't. But seemingly it wouldn't have mattered anyway, due to...
Failure #5: There was no place for the poll workers to specify the party selection when programming the e-voting system's audio ballot! So, presumably, even if they'd had the codes, there was no place for them to enter them into the system!
Here are the screens they were given --- from the beginning of the set-up for the audio ballot, to the end, when the ballot was made active so I could vote it. The bottom half of the screen, in the section titled "Audio Ballot," is what they use to program the audio ballot. The top is used for monitoring the paper ballots of other voters as they place them into the optical-scanner, part of the same computer, at the same time.
1) Hit the "Start" button...
2) Enter in the Precinct's ID number...
3) Select the audio language for the ballot...
4) Hit "Play Audio"...
5) And this is finally seen as the voter votes...
As you can see, the poll workers were never given a screen to input an option for a political party, even if they had been given the audio codes for it.
Failure #6: At this point, poll chief Dale was told by the person on the other end of the phone at the County Registrar's office that she would check with her superior and call us back. Thirty minutes later, the phone never rang. So, after more than two and a half hours trying to vote on the assistive e-voting device for voters in Los Angeles, I gave up, voted manually on a paper ballot, and ran it through the scanner. The ballot will either be counted accurately or not at this point. Unfortunately, there is no way to know how the computer op-scanner will record my votes. But at least I was able to select the candidates and ballot initiatives on the ballot, as I'd wanted. Whether those selections ever get counted accurately, or at all, is now out of my hands entirely, I'm sorry to say.
The ES&S InkaVote Plus system used in L.A. is a disaster. Today has proved that yet again. The County Registrar, Dean Logan, has been in the process of seeking out a new system for the county. I have been invited to participate in a number of public meetings with "stakeholders," as the county looks at various options for a new voting system.
I continue to hope that Logan will have the common sense to run a hand-marked paper ballot, hand-counting pilot program before spending millions on a new e-voting system which is likely to be as disastrous as this one --- if my years of covering virtually every available system, in virtually every jurisdiction in the country, is any indication. I have become convinced over the years, that hand-marked paper ballots, hand-counted at the precincts, in front of the citizenry and their video cameras, are likely the best, most efficient, most accurate way to both cast and count our ballots. Democracy's Gold Standard. It's certainly the most transparent way, and the only one which the citizenry --- who (theoretically) own these elections --- can fully oversee.
In any case, due dilligence would demand testing such a system before spending millions of dollars on a new e-voting system. Or, so one would think. At an event several months ago, while chatting privately with both Logan and CA Sec. of State Debra Bowen, the Secretary concurred that there is nothing in the state's election code that would disallow such a pilot project.
I can only hope Logan works with Election Integrity advocates to carry out such a pilot program --- finally --- in the near future.
Today, I had been fully expecting things to work just fine on the ES&S e-voting system, particularly given the diligent attention that Logan and the technicians at the Registrar's office had devoted trying to figure out what had gone wrong the last time I'd had a similar experience back in 2008.
Last time, the failure was ultimately attributed to "human error," as it was discovered the poll worker had entered an incorrect number into the audio ballot device. I had presumed they'd have re-programmed the systems --- two years later --- to remove the possibility for such "human error," since it should never have been allowable in the first place. Apparently, they didn't. Or maybe they did. In any case, we had a complete failure.
But the real "human error" here is by the humans who have mandated and/or chosen to use such ridiculously complicated and un-transparent devices in our democracy. Again, it's the voters who pay the price for such errors, while the private companies make millions of dollars bastardizing our once-public elections. Also paying the price: the candidates who might have received votes today but didn't, because the voters who used these devices had no idea that all of their votes may have been entirely miscast for candidates and initiatives those voters didn't actually support.
(Were you a candidate in a close race in Los Angeles today? You may want to check how many audio ballots were cast in your district to see if it might have made a difference in the results of your race!)
Last time this happened, I wondered aloud if the attention given to the problem I'd had, by both the Registrar's office and the office of SoS Bowen, would have been given to any voter --- even one who didn't happen to be a journalist with an expertise in issues of Election Integrity. It seems unlikely most voters would have even bothered to contact them with details of the problem. More disturbingly, most such voters using these machines are blind, so it's rather unlikely that they would even know there had been a problem at all.
In the meantime, though I've contacted both Logan and Bowen, I've yet to hear back tonight with comment from either office. [6/9/10: See UPDATE below for response from Logan.]
And the awful irony continues...
UPDATE 6/9/10 12:12pm PT: L.A. County's Registrar/Clerk Dean Logan emails a short response to my request for comment, explanation:
As is our practice, we will review the detailed account of your experience at the polls yesterday. We will perform due diligence in assessing what occurred, contacting those who were involved and determining what follow-up is necessary or appropriate.
Have yet to hear anything back from Sec. of State Debra Bowen's office. Will update when/if I do.
UPDATE 7/7/10: L.A. County's analysis of the problem I encountered this time around gets chalked up to "human error" (not mine) and "design weakness" in the ES&S InkaVote Plus system. Full details now here...
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... Disllusioned	said on 6/9/2010 @ 12:09 am PT...
Wow. Insane, and very real.
... Joyce McCloy said on 6/9/2010 @ 12:46 am PT...
Yikes. Well, perhaps suggest a pilot for HCBP. The Netherlands went back to paper:
World watches as Dutch vote with pencil
The Netherlands is the first country to go back to voting with paper ballots, after making the transition to computers. Other countries are wondering if they should follow the Dutch example
... johnboy w	said on 6/9/2010 @ 2:06 am PT...
here in south bend indiana nobody cares and it is sad. tell someone their vote was completely unverifiable and they will just shrug their shoulders. even the ones that take the time to vote,cant wrap their puny little minds around this issue at all. i am considered a conspiracy theorist for pointing this out. faith based voting is here and nobody cares.
Welcome to ANIMAL FARM we do more with less.
... Kenneth Fingeret	said on 6/9/2010 @ 2:17 am PT...
Hello Brad,
The last picture says it all. "The InkaVote plus is here to protect your vote". Wow the protection process is to not let you vote but let the InkaVote system vote for you. What a great system. Can we have it worldwide anytime soon. LA county probably has money issues and then has this monstrosity that eats money and devours resources that better could be used for paper ballots.
... Freddie Oakley said on 6/9/2010 @ 2:24 am PT...
Oh Brad, this is so sad. I know Dean is really trying. HAVA is the beast that ate LA, and a ton of other jurisdictions. The technology just was not there to make HAVA work, and the greedy folks who pushed it beyond reason don't care. I'm sitting in my office at 2.25 a.m. on Wednesday because our "new" Hava compliant system takes about three times as long to count votes as out trusty old punchcard system. Wake me when this nightmare is over.
... molly	said on 6/9/2010 @ 6:11 am PT...
Thank you Brad for taking the time to document the failure of our voting system. We do not know what the future holds, and the importance of documentation.
Who knows, maybe in a more just world , it will save us from the fate of countries like Germany.
... Soul Rebel	said on 6/9/2010 @ 6:28 am PT...
Brad,
I suppose you think that Captain America is a "real" superhero too!
I'm surprised that Bowen didn't do something about the InkaVote before this primary. Looking forward to that update.
... Mark E. Smith said on 6/9/2010 @ 7:21 am PT...
Once again, I didn't vote in the faith-based election for candidates I wouldn't be able to hold accountable during their terms of office (the ONLY time they're supposed to represent me).
If I can't know that my vote will be counted and counted accurately, and that my vote constitutes a REAL voice in government, not just a sham vote for unaccountable tyrants who will make decisions without regard to the will of the public, I see no reason to grant my consent of the governed.
For ten years now the election integrity community has been documenting the fact that the popular vote doesn't count and often isn't counted. And there is no way to ensure that votes are counted, no less counted accurately, because thye Supreme Court found in 2000 that our Constitution does not grant us the right to have our votes counted.
Until and unless we oust our oligarchy by boycotting their sham elections and refusing to delegate to them our power or to grant them our consent of the governed, and we, as the Declaration of Independence states is not only our right, but our duty, establish a new Constitution that DOES grant us a citizen-owned, transparent, participatory democracy, I will not vote. I do not consent to tyranny.
I'm really sick of "progressives" who hold their noses and cast votes they know may not be counted for candidates they cannot hold accountable, and then spend the next few years protesting what those candidates do. YOU granted them the power and authority to do whatever they wished when you voted in their elections. Your vote is your consent to be governed not by whoever you voted for, but by whoever the voting machines and the media say "won" the "election." Knowing you couldn't hold them accountable, you delegated them the power to do whatever they wished.
JOHNBOY is correct but it isn't just South Bend. All voters in this country are totally apathetic people who couldn't care less that their votes may not be counted or that they're voting for candidates they can't hold accountable. Voters are people who blindly support a system they don't understand. Give them the slightest hope that they might elect a local candidate or derive some selfish benefit, and they'll vote to allow any candidate of their party to have the power to decide whether or not to destroy the planet.
People who really want democracy won't settle for and vote for tyranny.
... Kim Kaufman	said on 6/9/2010 @ 7:57 am PT...
I have been pollworking since the pres. primaries 2008 and have NEVER had anyone use the audio machine. I wonder what the stats are on how many use it, also how many use it for language reasons and how accurate that is.
I decided this time, in addition to mandatory training, to try the internet training, for which the county spent milliom$. After logging on successfully, and completing one section --- a confusing and not very helpful section on provisional voting --- I pressed "complete" button, thinking I was signalling I had completed that section and wanted to chose another section. However, it turned out I was now "completed", time expired, could not go to any other sections or anything else. I logged out and went back in, same thing. I suspect no one is keeping stats on how many people actually use this overpriced help program and what the level of satisfaction or information is by anyone who has used it.
Everything at my poll yesterday went relatively OK, with complaints too petty to go into here. The only thing of note was one person who voted provisionally put his ballot into the ballot box instead of his provisional envelope. Oh, well. I hope, Brad, you might attend the next CVOC meeting where you can address your issues in a sort of public forum.
Also, I suspect you know about the "snafus" in Marcy's district, in the precincts that happened to be those of her most ardent supporters. John Ennis wrote about them on HuffPo I read last night.
... WJM	said on 6/9/2010 @ 8:31 am PT...
Computers should NEVER be allowed in elections. Its far too easy to make them print out one thing and save another in memory. And we have to get over this idea that machines are better than humans. We need to go back to a pencil on paper election system. I trust humans FAR more than I trust the humans who program those machines, and especially when the head of the company says that his job is to deliver the election to one or the other candidate (like Diebold's CEO said about W).
This system stinks to high heaven. HAVA was a sham, and needs to be repealed IMMEDIATELY. It was nothing but a way to keep stealing elections.
... KestrelBrighteyes	said on 6/9/2010 @ 9:15 am PT...
Ya know, I have to wonder how it is that the "birthers" haven't latched onto these machines as another method of attempting to prove Barack Obama can't be a legitimate President.
Seriously, could we maybe convince them that there's a secret cabal of powerful people on the left who have already made a list of Presidents for next decade or so, and that the voting machine companies have people who are in on it and that's why they're not taking security issues seriously?
Yeah, I know, it's devious and disingenuous, but you just know if Limbaugh and Beck picked it up, it'd go viral among the Faux TV News crowd and teabaggers - and from the looks of things, that may be the only way to get these !#$!! machines crushed and shredded and gone for good!
... colinjames	said on 6/9/2010 @ 9:18 am PT...
Well suhPRIZE suhPRIZE suhPRIZE! So when was the last pretty much verifiable election anyway? HAVA is a joke. These e-machines are a joke, and obvously made cheap and/or hackable on purpose, since ATMs that make so few mistakes as to be statistically near-perfect have been around for decades now, made by the same companies.
My question is- with so many documented problems, with so many politicians cheated out of office, where is the big push (outside BradBlog, VR, Bev H. et al) to get rid of these democracy-killers? 10 years of epic failure at least, and only a handfull of precincts around the country moving away from e-voting... what's it gonna take?
... Kim Kaufman	said on 6/9/2010 @ 11:06 am PT...
Brad & anyone else in La(this is tomorrow):
Councilmember José Huizar to Host 6/10 Forum on Election Reform
"Election Reform in Los Angeles: Idle, Moving Back or Moving Forward? An Exploration of Voting By Mail, Ranked Choice Voting & Changing Election Dates"
WHO: Councilmember José Huizar, Panel of Experts and Stakeholders
Moderater: Councilmember José Huizar
•	Kathay Feng, Common Cause
•	Antonio Gonzalez, Southwest Voter Registration & Education Project and the Willie C. Velasquez Institute
•	David Holtzman, League of Women Voters
•	Ron Kaye, RonKayeLA.com and the Saving LA Project
•	Darry Sragow, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
•	Holly Wolcott, Office of the City Clerk, City of Los Angeles
WHAT: Forum on "Election Reform in Los Angeles: Idle, Moving Back or Moving Forward? An Exploration of Voting By Mail, Ranked Choice Voting and Changing Election Dates
(Play or download Councilmember Huizar talking about the forum on Off the Presses @ the 34 minute mark; read his piece on Proposition 15 in today's Fox & Hounds Daily.)
WHEN: Thursday, June 10, 2010 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
WHERE: Los Angeles City Hall-Council Chambers (3rd Floor) @ 200 N. Spring St. Los Angeles, 90012
WHY: There are two major election reform propositions on the California June primary ballot today. Hear how the proposals may affect your local area and what is being discussed for the City of Los Angeles. Get an update on what has happened since Councilmember Huizar's last forum and participate in the program.
There is no cost to attend and parking can be arranged by contacting the Office of Councilmember Huizar at (213) 473-7014. Light refreshments will be served. Please register above or send your info to Events@HeadingtonMedia.com.
This is a follow-up to the successful March forum on Campaign Finance Reform and will be held just 2 days after today's California June Primary Election.
... nunya said on 6/9/2010 @ 11:25 am PT...
Good Gawd,
will this ever end?
... Brad Friedman said on 6/9/2010 @ 11:30 am PT...
Kim Kauffman @ 14:
At least two of those ideas are horrible ones. I will not be able to be there tomorrow to express why, so I hope you, and others in L.A. can!
Or else, we can continue to simply get beaten up by our own electoral system.
Freddie Oakley @ 5:
Your comments are especially appreciated, Freddie (for those who don't know, she is the Registrar/Clerk of Yolo County, CA --- and one of the greatest in the country, for that matter!)
I appreciate that "Dean is really trying". I have no doubt of that, in fact. No matter, however, the system completely and utterly broken down. An unmitigated disaster.
I'm not really looking to blame anyone at this point. You've identified the major culprit. I am, however, looking for someone to do something, anything about it.
Once again, I am merely a canary in the coal mine. We'll see the true consequences of this nightmare in the future. (Again.) At least no one will be able to say they weren't warned (though they probably will anyway.)
... d	said on 6/9/2010 @ 2:21 pm PT...
I went to my local polling place to help out yesterday. Despite the low turnout while I was present, 5 people (out of 7) had to vote provisionally while I was there. Sorry, Logan is not trying hard enough and never should have been installed. And there is too much outsourcing of the whole process to corporations. There shouldn't be a single corporation involved with the voting process. Not a one.
... Mark E. Smith said on 6/9/2010 @ 3:41 pm PT...
What's its gonna take, COLINJAMES, is an election boycott. People have to stop trying to reform a system that is rotten to its core, and establish a system that isn't.
As long as there are a significant number of voters willing to vote in easily rigged, totally unverifiable, and easily overturned elections, for candidates they may love but cannot hold accountable, and for issues they may care about deeply but have no say in (other than allowing officials they cannot hold accountable to make decisions that can cause irreparable damage like the Gulf oil spill), there is no reason for the government to allow honest elections or a democratic form of government.
Indeed, as long as there are suckers who will vote in faith-based, unverifiable, easily rigged elections, for candidates who, no matter how lovable cannot be held directly and immediately accountable by their constituents for any harm they do, there is every reason for the oligarchy not to worry about proposed reforms.
Even if you got hand-counted paper ballots with full citizen oversight, the Constitution does grant you the right to have your vote counted and the Supreme Court can stop the vote count, as it did in 2000, any time it wants. Constitutionally. Congress can seat unelected candidates without regard to the actual results of the election and without bothering to investigate Federal Election Contests. Constitutionally. Our Constitution, Article 1, Section 5, says that Congress, is the sole judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its members. If Congress says somebody was elected, it doesn't matter at all if they really weren't. That was so important to the founders that it is in the very first Article of the Constitution. Preserving the oligarchy because they felt that those who owned the country should rule it and that there shouldn't be "too much democracy."
To ensure that there wasn't "too much democracy," they didn't allow ANY, and then they lied about it and said we had a republic, where the people can exercise their will through their elected representatives, but gave us no way to directly hold those representatives accountable. You can't exercise your will through somebody by petitioning them, as our founders learned when they petitioned King George.
Honest elections won't happen until people stop voting in dishonest elections, and democracy won't happen until people realize that we don't already have one.
Oops, type. That should be "...the Constitution does NOT grant you the right to have your vote counted."
That's the primary right in any democratic form of government.
Mark E. Smith said @ 19
What's its gonna take, COLINJAMES, is an election boycott.
We already have one. The majority of voters eligible to vote, don't bother. That "boycott" has done no good.
I've done my best to avoid responding to Mark's exhausting, and ridiculous attempts to convince people that not trying to have their votes counted, or even voting at all, is somehow a "solution" to something. It isn't. But having gone round and round with him about that for years, I don't have much of an interest in doing so again.
Suffice to say, if you don't want to vote, don't vote. I have no problem with anyone who chooses not to vote. But if you do choose to vote, I believe you're vote ought to be counted, and counted accurately and transparently (so that everyone can know it's been counted accurately).
Beyond that, I'll wish Mark luck in his imaginary (and counter-productive) movement.
... Shortbus	said on 6/9/2010 @ 7:11 pm PT...
Due diligence you think, would of been applied before the election even occurred.
... Chris Hooten	said on 6/9/2010 @ 7:26 pm PT...
Jeez Brad, I don't see what the big deal is. The blind people would feel a lot better, since they did their civic duty and voted... What's all this concern about votes being counted correctly? Seriously though, it boggles the mind that there could possibly be that many snafus and obvious problems in a system that costs millions of dollars. What a bunch of fuckheads.
Election boycotts only prove that you don't care about politics to whoever is in power. There is no threat there, Mark. How does that work? Where is the big stick to smack them over the head with ala voting them out of office? Good luck with that one achieving anything of note...
... Jack Nauti	said on 6/9/2010 @ 8:35 pm PT...
Brad, great job of documenting your experience. Thanks you. A few comments:
As one or more people noted above, it is extremely rare that the "accessible" voting options are used. Nationally, we have spent BILLIONS in order to (try to/pretend to) satisfy the requirements for voting methods that are "accessible" and (1) they suck and (2) nobody uses them, in spite of the very vocal groups that demand them. This should stop. Provide human assistance to those who need help and junk all this... junk.
And while we're junking things, how about we junk HAVA altogether? Again, it is costing us billions with little or no return. In fact it has made things worse. One part of HAVA most people aren't aware of is the state wide voter registration requirements. Again... BILLIONS nationwide. Every county in the country has had to or is in the process of figuring out how to do their jobs locally while satisfying the requirements that their database sync with a statewide database that provides virtually NO VALUE to anyone but costs a fortune, much of it in hidden costs that nobody sees. Vast resources have been spent on this and still are. California has just in the last few weeks entered train-wreck mode with their VoteCal project, designed to REPLACE the state wide voter registration database they put in place over ten years ago and functions adequately. And all this, keep in mind, provides NO added value, but we're all paying for it.
Brad, has there been any serious movement within the election integrity movement or Congress to just simply repeal or massively change this ill-conceived and stupid piece of legislation? HAVA must go away.
... Jody Holder	said on 6/10/2010 @ 9:54 am PT...
Today I received an email from Bowen's campaign asking for my help. Its spin was typical for any politician.
At the polls yesterday, Republicans chose as their nominee for Secretary of State --- the person responsible for ensuring election integrity --- someone who has said he wants to bring back the electronic voting machines that independent scientific reviewers commissioned by Debra Bowen determined were not secure, accurate, reliable, or accessible....
Thanks to Bowen those electronic voting machines that were not secure, accurate, reliable, and accessible are still here. How could her challenger want them back. She never got rid of them.
She has enhanced public access by expanding the Secretary of State website, strengthened election fraud prevention efforts, and expanded voter education --- all the while streamlining operations and cutting the agency's budget by more than 20%.
In her responses to activists who made official complaints she claimed was underfunded and understaffed. Now she claims she has streamlined operations (less staff to enforce the law), and reduced her budget by 20% (now underfunded even more).
She is well aware of the the continuing failure of the electronic voting systems. Of county officials that ignore her so-called mitigations to compensate for the defective voting systems that should have had their approval removed in August 2007 after the study by her hired experts. She did not, has not, and clearly will not enforce the requirements of California's Election Code.
LA County has been playing loose with HAVA funds, citizens' votes, and hiding their failures and conflicts of interest since at least 2002 when they paid Diebold a large sum to develop a custom system.
If I was Debra Bowen I certainly would not be sending out emails gloating about cutting her staff so the citizens of this state have even less protection of their vote. The LA system has for years been suspect, hidden from view, and treated like it was sacred. When all the systems used in the state were supposed to have been personally reviewed under Shelley, LA County's system was not. The SOS relied upon what LA County TOLD the investigators.
For seven years, multiple elections, hundreds of citizen complaints and evidence, official reviews, the counties continue to use these defective systems.
Now the Attorney General who should have enforced the Election Code that the SoS refused to, is running for governor. What a sham! This is not a state or nation that is governed by the consent of the governed. I have no confidence in our elections.
... Chris Hooten	said on 6/12/2010 @ 9:37 am PT...
I'm quite confident Bowen is doing a better job than any Republican challenger would. That is not to say she couldn't do better, but she has done a lot.
This is (another) one for the "Truth is Stranger than Fiction" file.
You can't make this stuff up.
... MarkH	said on 6/15/2010 @ 10:53 am PT...
Originally Senators weren't even voted on, the state's legislature's picked the senators. The Constitution doesn't say a majority vote will pass legislation & such in the U.S. Senate. It just says the 'Senate shall decide' issues. We have a pretty good system, but there are plenty of wrinkles and torn frayed edges.
The only silver lining to the current electronic voting machine debacle is that it may wake up the public to the importance of being in control of their own government. People are often screaming in the streets about 'taking back their government' or 'taking back their country', but do they yell about 'taking back their vote'? Nope.
Americans know what they want. Corporate America knows what they want. Advertising firms know what they want and produce campaigns to ensure people know this is what corporate products will give them. BUT, corporations also know they can sell products which do NOT give people what they want or what the ads say. Heavens, Ronnie Raygun even repealed the law which required ads to be truthful. America is great at getting the money without putting out the product. Lying is the main product these days.
... Robert Ken Francis	said on 6/23/2010 @ 1:35 pm PT...
THIS is what we are fighting for in Afghanistan and Iraq? THIS CORRUPT PROCESS???
Truly no one needs the results of an election instantly. Let's go back to verifiable paper at least so you have something to recount!!!


Jose Mourinho singled out Juan Mata and Marcus Rashford for special praise after the attacking duo helped Manchester United to come from two goals down to beat Crystal Palace 3-2 on Monday night.
The Red Devils found themselves 2-0 down at Selhurst Park in the Premier League clash but managed to fight back and claim an important victory in the race for Champions League qualification.
Goals from Chris Smalling, Romelu Lukaku and a last-minute stunner from Nemanja Matic notched up the three points for Mourinho's men as they moved back above Liverpool FC in the Premier League table and into second place.
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Next up for Manchester United is their crunch clash against Liverpool FC at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Saturday lunchtime as the race for Champions League qualification hots up.
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Funding approved for micro-credentials
Three micro-credentials will receive funding from the Government to help New Zealanders gain new skills and balance learning with working, Education Minister Chris Hipkins said today.
Micro-credentials are stand-alone education credits intended for trainees or people in the workplace to access specific knowledge and skills in a cost-effective and time-efficient way.
The Government added micro-credentials to New Zealand's formal qualifications and training system last August, and changed funding rules late last year so the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) could fund them.
The micro-credentials approved for funding are:
*Two micro-credentials developed by Competenz that will provide the forestry sector with skilled planting workers
*A micro-credential developed by the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) to give learners the skills and knowledge to install kitchens to professional standards.
"The Government believes micro-credentials will be increasingly important," Chris Hipkins said.
"People will need new, up-to-date skills across their lifetime: sometimes a full qualification and, in other cases, a refresh of skills in the form of a micro-credential that will keep workers up to date.
"Micro-credentials are smaller than qualifications, with a tight focus on developing skills to meet the immediate needs of industry, employers, iwi and/or community.
"They are a big step forward in helping learners, employers and businesses keep pace with the changing demands of a modern workplace, allowing the education and training system to respond flexibly and innovatively to fast-paced social, economic and technological change," Chris Hipkins said.
The three micro-credentials were developed with input and support from industry to help meet local demand.
Micro-credentials have been recognised by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) for both provider-based and workplace-based training. The TEC is reviewing further applications for micro-credentials and will advise the outcome later in the year.
1. What are the benefits of micro-credentials?
Micro-credentials help people gain specific knowledge and skills in a cost-effective and time-efficient way. Micro-credentials will be increasingly important as emerging technologies change the nature of work. We are in the early stages of what the World Economic Forum has called a fourth industrial revolution - jobs and the skills they demand are changing, and new industries are emerging. The 2018 Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum states by 2022, no less than 54% of all employees will require significant re- and upskilling.
Therefore all employees and employers need to be committed to lifelong learning. Micro-credentials are one way people can continue to learn while they earn and upskill, so we can better respond to changes in our working lives.
2. How are micro-credentials funded?
The Tertiary Education Commission will subsidise micro-credentials where there is a clear public interest in doing so. Employers, industry, and/or learners can pay for other micro-credentials in full.


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High profile foreign correspondent Peter Greste will help guide the future of journalism education after accepting an appointment at The University of Queensland.
Mr Greste will join the UQ School of Communication and Arts as the UNESCO Chair of Journalism and Communication early this year.
An internationally recognised journalist with numerous awards for his work, Mr Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the world's most dangerous countries before making headlines following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison.
Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj said Mr Greste's appointment demonstrated UQ's commitment to the study and practice of journalism in a changing world.
"Charged with threatening national security and held in solitary confinement and detention for 400 days, Mr Greste himself became a victim of the ever-present dangers to journalists seeking to establish and report facts," Professor Høj said.
"By bringing a leading practitioner into the classroom as an advocate for the fundamental principles of free speech and a free press, we are helping prepare students to work with passion and integrity in a rapidly changing media landscape.
Mr Greste said that after spending more than a quarter of a century on the road, covering international affairs for the BBC, Reuters and Al Jazeera, it felt like the right time to change gears and give something back to journalism.
"I'm incredibly excited to be joining UQ to pass on some of what I've learned over the years to the next generation of journalists," he said.
Mr Greste's role will include a range of teaching, research and engagement activities and he also plans to continue as a commentator, speaker and campaigner around key issues in the media, as well as advocating for the need to defend journalists and freedom of expression.
He has recently published The First Casualty, a memoir from the front lines of the global war on journalism, and produced the upcoming ABC documentary series General Monash and me.
Mr Greste will join UQ in early February.
The role is supported by the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Program, which involves more than 700 institutions in 116 countries.
Media: Melinda Kopanakis, [email protected], +61 7 3365 2632.


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Your subject line is the single most important sentence in all your emails. A slightly better subject line is going to make a bigger impact than a much better email. The more people who you get to open your email, the more click-throughs you're going to get and the more sales you'll get.
So how do you write attention-grabbing subject lines for your marketing emails? Here are 6 success tips.
Use their name in the subject. Some marketers think this is tacky, or that people get used to it or start to tune it out after a time.
I don't agree.They really don't.
This has been split tested time and again and again by marketers across many industries. We're human and using a person's name in the subject line gets a higher open rate than the same subject line without their name. Almost always.
Different email programs have different subject line cut-off thresholds. As a rule of thumb, try to keep your subject lines under 35 characters.
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How will it benefit their lives to read your email?
Magazines have tested this extensively. Headlines that imply a benefit outperform headlines that are only shocking, headlines that are only interesting or headlines that engender curiosity but don't imply a benefit. If you're looking for inspiration stop by a news agency and check out the headlines on popular magazines.
Always, always tell people what they'll get by opening your email.
If possible, imply that you're going to share something with them that nobody else is talking about. Something that you'll only share once. Something that they would really benefit from learning.
When you make information exclusive and scarce, people get curious. Curious enough to open an email.
Imply that the information in your email is only good for a short time, or that an offer might expire. This technique is hard to get right, but can be extremely powerful.
Be honest! If you lie to create urgency, you'll lose credibility with your audience. If you make up deadlines that don't exist, people will stop paying attention to your claims.
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Finally, split test. Split test different styles of headlines. Different kinds of headlines work better for different kinds of audiences. Not all audiences respond to the same things. Learn what works best with your audience.
If there is one takeaway today, it's to remember that your subject lines are important. Critically important. Put a lot of time and energy into them and use these tips to help you create subject lines that get results.
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