Electronic voting machines report [US NIST] News
Electronic voting machines report [US NIST]

Draft report, National Institute of Standards and Technology, December 2, 2006 [finding that software-dependent voting machines, "are not viable for future voting systems" and "in practical terms cannot be made secure"]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Massachusetts instituted death penalty for heresy

On November 4, 1646, the Massachusetts General Court approved a law requiring all members of the colony to recognize the Bible as the Word of God, under penalty of death.  

Israel PM Yitzhak Rabin assassinated

On November 4, 1995, Yigal Amir shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in response to the Oslo Accords peace agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Amir was tried and given a life sentence for the murder. Learn more about the trial of Yigal Amir from the New York Times.