With the creation of centralized computerized databases of voter registrations mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), many states have failed to institute necessary safeguards ...

What Americans should be most worried about this November, say elections experts like Thad Hall, a political scientist at the University of Utah, is not that someone might hack the Diebold machine ...

American history does not lack political entrepreneurs who invented novel ways to manipulate the results of elections, from Tammany Hall in the 19th century to Richard Daley's Chicago Democratic ...

This computerized database can easily be used by infection control personnel to accomplish several other key tasks, including vaccination triage in the context of shortage or delay, prioritization of ...

Edgar F. Codd, a longtime computer scientist for IBM in San Jose whose ideas for database organization became the industry standard, has died. He was 79. Mr. Codd died on Friday of heart failure at ...

2006-08-14 21:36:41 PDT -- A 17-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department was arrested Monday on 40 felony counts of misusing confidential computer databases, police said. The district ...