EconTech

Apparently, it doesn’t get funding:
Why Medicine Should Care Less About ‘Sick,’ More About ‘Normal’
If you had died 50 years ago, your body would have stood a pretty good chance of serving science. In the 1960s, autopsy rates at US hospitals exceeded 50 percent. Pathologists weren’t necessarily looking for what killed people — they were taking [...]

I have nothing to add to this, except that Jon Stokes has consistently done excellent reporting on e-voting for years, and if you are interested in the subject, he is a great place to start.

Analysis: Why the “Hillary hacked NH?” story is important (Updated)
By Jon Stokes [...]

That is what they are saying over at Ars. The description of what is happening just doesn’t sound right to me. This would be insanely annoying with no real benefit that I can see. I don’t even see how this benefits Microsoft. And, despite being an OpenOffice user, that is just not an attractive alternative. [...]

I haven’t written much about e-voting initiatives, and there is too much to be written in a single space. But a few quick thoughts before passing you on to the well-versed Stokes. Avoiding the technical issues of which I am not capable of commenting on intelligently, the economic issues in these devices and processes are [...]