Adam Friedman » News http://adamfriedman.org Let's Make Things Better, Together Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:01:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 MassLive.com: Voting rights activist Adam Friedman is the man behind Massachusetts election results database http://adamfriedman.org/adams-projects/masslive-the-state-website-that-works-voting-rights-activist-adam-friedman-is-the-man-behind-massachusetts-election-results-database/ http://adamfriedman.org/adams-projects/masslive-the-state-website-that-works-voting-rights-activist-adam-friedman-is-the-man-behind-massachusetts-election-results-database/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:15:17 +0000 Adam http://adamfriedman.org/?p=787 The Republican / MassLive.com wrote a profile about me and my civic technology work. Below is an excerpt. Read the full article on MassLive.com. – By Shira Schoenberg The annual books run 500 pages long, filled with tables of election results. Who won the 2002 state representative race in Colrain in 2002? What was the vote [...]

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]]> http://adamfriedman.org/adams-projects/masslive-the-state-website-that-works-voting-rights-activist-adam-friedman-is-the-man-behind-massachusetts-election-results-database/feed/ 0 Government Technology Horror Stories http://adamfriedman.org/news/government-technology-horror-stories/ http://adamfriedman.org/news/government-technology-horror-stories/#comments Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:55:47 +0000 Adam http://www.adamfriedman.org/?p=709 This post will provide a regularly-updated running list of publicly-funded technology contracts gone awry, in which taxpayers spend millions of dollars for poor-quality software. Something is clearly wrong with public sector procurement and/or project management. Massachusetts Child Care Financial Assistance System, 11/20/2015 Computer woes delay child-care subsidies About 1,600 low-income children remain stuck on a [...]

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]]> http://adamfriedman.org/adams-projects/press-release-every-election-at-your-fingertips/feed/ 0 Washington Post endorses ranked choice voting http://adamfriedman.org/policy/electoral-reform/washington-post-endorses-ranked-choice-voting/ http://adamfriedman.org/policy/electoral-reform/washington-post-endorses-ranked-choice-voting/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:07:50 +0000 Adam http://www.adamfriedman.org/?p=467 It’s great to see major media outlets support game-changing reforms like ranked choice voting (aka, “instant runoff voting”): The next regular round of council and local elections is slated for next year. So it’s important to look beyond the personalities of the recent election to the processes that allowed a citywide representative to be elected [...]

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