<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - E-Politics</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/techpolicy/epolitics?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><description>E-Politics</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Edwards Tosses His Hat Into Podcasting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64247-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64247-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards wasn't known for his tech savvy during his 2004 campaign, but he is now one of the few politicians to venture into the world of podcasting.]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FEC Signals Light Hand on Web Campaigning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61433-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61433-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Federal Election Commission plans to take what one of its commissioners termed a "relatively nonintrusive" approach to regulating political campaigns on the Internet.]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activists Use Web To Nudge Party]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50245-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50245-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[To hear some people tell it, the problem with the Democratic Party is that the political left no longer knows what it believes. A young graduate student named John Paul Rollert says these doubters can find their answer on the Web.]]></description><author> John F. Harris</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FEC May Restrict Online Political Activities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51986-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51986-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Federal Election Commission has begun considering whether --  and how  --  to impose restrictions on a host of online activities, including campaign advertising and politically oriented blogs.]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Campaigns Profit From Irreverence?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26301-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26301-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A "This Land Is Your Land" parody of Bush and Kerry became one of the most popular features on the Internet for a short time last summer. The organizers of an online politics conference hope the parody's authors can teach something to campaign pros.]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grass-Roots Politics With Click of a Mouse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59750-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59750-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the election season reaches its peak, Silicon Valley is trying to change politics by harnessing the Internet's ability to take advantage of and grow social networks from the bottom up.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Ariana Eunjung Cha</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[E-Voting Raises New Issues]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61203-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61203-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Washington Post staff writer Dan Keating discussed electronic voting with washingtonpost.com tech policy editor Robert MacMillan and took your questions.]]></description><author>LiveOnline</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post-Election Blues, Driven Ever FWD Into the Past]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44137-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44137-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Forty-eight percent of the nation is still sad and upset about the defeat of John Kerry, and you know so because they won't stop forwarding the same few links, cartoons and manifestoes to you, over and over again, as if it were 1998 and the Web were still new and you cheerfully opened every e-mail you received.]]></description><author> Hank Stuever</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latest Conspiracy Theory Hits the Ether]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41106-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41106-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Even as Sen. John F. Kerry's campaign is steadfastly refusing to challenge the results of the presidential election, the bloggers, the mortally wounded party loyalists and the spreadsheet-wielding conspiracy theorists are filling the Internet with head-turning allegations.]]></description><author> Manuel Roig-Franzia  and Dan Keating</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington Area Avoids E-Voting Misery]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18959-2004Nov2.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18959-2004Nov2.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Problems with new voting technology that were predicted by some computer scientists and voting-rights advocates failed to materialize on a widespread basis in the region Tuesday, with only minor glitches being reported in Maryland and Virginia. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political Spam Pervades Personal Computers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18746-2004Nov2.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18746-2004Nov2.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Junk e-mail might be the Internet's most annoying by-product, but several 21st-century political operatives say America is developing a taste for the kind of spam that advertises candidates rather than "herbal supplements." <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Web Site Bars Overseas Visitors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2668-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2668-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has barred people outside the United States from viewing its Web site following an electronic attack that took down the campaign's Internet address for six hours last week, accordingto computer security experts. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</b></font>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electronic Voting Raises New Issues]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59554-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59554-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Touted as the solution to the hanging chads of the 2000 presidential election, experts debate the reliability of software that operates the new electronic voting systems. <br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Dan Keating</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax E-Voting Video Speaks Immigrants' Languages]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57553-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57553-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fairfax County is putting its technology prowess to work for its new immigrants on Election Day.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush, Kerry Make Last-Minute Pleas for Help by E-Mail]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43204-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43204-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The e-mails come in a torrent now, each seemingly more urgent than the last.]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[E-Voting Group Sues Md. Elections Board]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27586-2004Oct12.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27586-2004Oct12.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Maryland group seeking paper trails on touch-screen voting machines Tuesday sued the State Board of Elections to win the right to monitor polling places on Election Day. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</b></font>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foe Catches Van Hollen With Web Guard Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25345-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25345-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[GOP candidate for Congress Charles R. Floyd bought three Internet domain names with Van Hollen's name and turned them into Web sites carrying unflattering comments about the freshman congressman's record.]]></description><author> Tim Craig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Campaigns Spending Little on Web Ads]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4446-2004Oct3.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4446-2004Oct3.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The presidential ad war online is beginning to look more like a skirmish.]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['A Massive Experiment' In Voting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39102-2004Sep21.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39102-2004Sep21.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On Nov. 2, some 6 million Washington-area voters will use touch-screen machines, a key test of a new technology that will play a major role in deciding what promises to be a very close presidential election. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custody of Voting Machine Argued in Montgomery Court]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21567-2004Sep14.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21567-2004Sep14.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy/epolitics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:24:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A volunteer Maryland election worker touched off a frenzied legal effort in Montgomery County yesterday after he refused to return a touch-screen voting machine, telling state election officials he intended to let an expert hired by CBS News examine it.]]></description><author> Eric Rich and Darragh Johnson</author></item></channel></rss>