Steven Clift
Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:46:43 -0700
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As I presented <http://dowire.org/localedemdocs/> (see localedem-p1- clift) at the Int'l Local E-Democracy Symposium, local governments should pursue an aggressive "informed voting" strategies online like South Korea. With the e-voting transaction taking a break in the UK, I'd encourage some of those resources to be used on effective use of ICTs to help voters gain access to non-partisan voter education resources online. The scarcity of locally relevant candidate and position information is something that should be addressed. I've always felt that regardless of how someone casts a ballot, the real benefits will come from the information and interactive environment placed around the voting experience. Steven Clift http://dowire.org P.S. I also want to endorse the concept from the "Involve" effort in the UK that notes: Political legitimacy and active citizenry should both be supported through better use of the internet. But not simply through e-voting. Indeed the current emphasis on e-voting detracts from the much more important notion of e-democracy, between elections. E-voting is dead, long live e-democracy. Hopefully... More: http://tinyurl.com/8afzj More: http://news.google.com/news?q=e-voting From: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article310725.ece E-voting plans shelved By John Deane, PA Published: 06 September 2005 Ministers have shelved plans to test electronic voting in local elections next year, it emerged today. The Government's move to drop trials for pilot schemes in next May's local elections was revealed in a written Parliamentary answer, published last week during the Parliamentary recess, from constitutional affairs minister Harriet Harman. "The Government has decided not to invite applications from local authorities to conduct electronic voting pilots in the May 2006 local elections," said Ms Harman. A spokesman for her department said today: "The Government believes that the time is not yet right to take forward the piloting of e- voting. "We are not ruling out piloting e-voting in the future and any future plans will be taken ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift UK Office Hours - 1pm - 11pm - - T: 0870.340.1266 Join my Democracies Online Newswire: http://dowire.org *** Past Messages, to Subscribe: http://dowire.org *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** New RSS XML Feed Available: *** http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/maillist.xml