We want E-voting because we are sick of spending two to three hours outside the booths in order to cast our votes..
But i think this inconvenience will be nothing in front of the disaster that will occur when voters become a victim of web frauds and elections will be no more transparent then.
We can't digitalize this system unless we have proper precautionary measures or else this will turn out to be a massive political desolation.
Moreover its two decades and still we have not solved problems of spam email.
So there is a long way to go, before we can put voting online.
Oh yes, two bastions of democracy, both capable of generating confusion at election time. If Florida doesn't undertake a serious overhaul of its election systems, I am predicting chaos in 2016. Not too soon for predictions, right?
If anyone cares, it happened three times in the UK in the twentieth century (won the popular vote but not a majority of Parliamentary "seats"). I actually remember the chaos in 1974: a second election was held the same year.
The potential for a discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral college vote is a whole other issue, but with the exception of 2000 -- where I don't know that we ever got a final, accurate count -- you have to go back to 1888 to find that happening.
Great point. With the problems e-voting machines have today, they're bound to be more a headache than a convenience. These days, I know it's hard to believe, but pad paper does sometimes perform better than an iPad.
Romney was trounced by it by a wide margin. Even if the popular vote count were to tip his way, the Democrates would be well within the Constitution to call the election to the President.
Funny how, when this happened to them, they were all over it, crying and wailing! But now it offers protection to their party incumbent. I'm for this present system - it could prevent the kind of election that caused the Weimar Republic to fall, and Hitler to come to power.
Our parties are not as near stratified, but I can't compare Obama to Hitler of course! -Despite what people seem to insist on saying. - It is true the Democrates ran all over the opposition in the first two years of his Presidency; but we just gotta get over that and drive on.
Seems to me that paper ballots with "fill-in-the-bubble" voting are about as advanced as voting needs to be. What do we really gain from e-voting other than a small bit of convenience? People can already vote absentee and get about the same amount of convenience by voting on paper and returning the results via USPS. Do we really need to vote on smartphones? What problem does that solve without introducing a whole bunch of new problems about security and accountability?
I think voting is one area where I don't see the upside to digitalization just yet.
This should worry the heck out of anyone. Florida is still counting, may not be done until some time in November, and the running results are well within recount range -- candidates separated by about 50,000 votes.
If a Presidential election hangs on Florida again we'll chaos again unless some serious fixing is done.
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