dkreiss@stanford.edu

GIS Mapping Software for Legislative Districts

I am a PhD student in Communication, interested in technology, politics, and culture.

I am playing around with a number ideas for the 11th thing, but thus far I have been fascinated by voting machines (from paper ballots, 'lock boxes', pull levers, to touch screens); or machines that embody statistical relationships between the public and its representatives.

Couple of fun links:

Voting Machines/ballots/punch cards http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111300b.htm http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/

The Statistical Census http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blhollerith.htm?once=true&

Punch cards, data processing, computers and democracy http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr041.html

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Posted at Feb 13/2006 12:51AM:
Michael Shanks: there is a long history to such devices designed to regulate political activity (places of assemble, the Greek ostrakon and the klepshydra ...)