The First E-President

Szentigrade writes "Popular Science is running a letter by Daniel Engber of the online Slate Magazine in which he offers the US Presidential nominees advice on using the full potential of the Internet upon their election into office. Some examples discussed in the letter include: a project already being developed that speeds up the patent approval process, a UK site that aims to improve government-citizen interactions, and perhaps most importantly, a call for government information to be 'presented in a standardized and widely used data format, like XML, so that anyone — in or out of government — could use and reconfigure it however they pleased.' Will 2009 be the first year of the E-President?"

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[brian0918]

Or, you could do what Obama does and let the same person give multiple donations to you with the same credit card under whatever pseudonym you like, thereby bypassing any sort of campaign donation limit.

I'm sure McCain will follow suit as soon as he figures out "how to turn the damn thing on."

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[caffeinemessiah]

Or, you could do what Obama does and let the same person give multiple donations to you with the same credit card under whatever pseudonym you like, thereby bypassing any sort of campaign donation limit.

Yes, because it's totally inconceivable that two people would use the same credit card or have the same credit card number. Merrill Lynch (MBNA really) and a lot of other credit card companies give additional cardholders (family, friends, etc. of the primary cardholder) the same credit card number, and often these people share the same billing address. Therefore, more than one person can legally be associated with the same credit card number.

I claim prior art on the first E-Pen...

[Justin Ames]

Oh, it says the first E-President...

Just like...

[sgriffin_usa]

it will be the year of the Linux desktop.