Yet more mumblings of e-voting at El Reg.
Does anyone seriously think that e-voting is a good idea? Ignoring the fact that PRIVATE companies have complete control over the PUBLIC election process and ignoring the usability nightmare and ignoring what happens when there's a power cut, you still have the fact that it wont solve the fundamental problems of voting.
1) Low voter turn out. I think this could be solved with an improved voting process rather than first past the post and more accountable politicians.
2) That's it. Seriously. The UK (paper) elections can be counted in an evening - so speed isn't an issue. Vote fraud seems to be fairly low. Vote counting is within acceptable bounds of accuracy. What else do we need?
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