The White House commission on voter fraud plans to run states' voter rolls against federal databases to find potential fraudulent registrations — a move experts say will result in thousands of errors and could distort fraud.
But a CDC database that began in 2003 may help solve that problem.
New York City has launched a public database to help study the problem of repeat offenders.
In parsing the meaning of “open government,” citizens weigh the availability of information against the transparency of creating it. It’s a rare grammar debate that affects the course of democracy.
A four-decade project to catalog the basic structures used to build life pays dividends for everything from new drugs to Bjork’s performances.
Legislation named for a missing 31-year-old man would tie together the various data threads on the nation's missing persons.
