This would be nice, but we are too far away from this being a reality in the near future (sadly). I've had a vision of an "electronic town hall" for quite some time where our elected representatives could post a question in his or her town hall to get a feel for what the constituents really felt about an issue.
But then I thought since it was so easy (relatively) to hi-jack a computer over the Internet I thought that wouldn't it then be easy (somewhat) to electronically submit votes to influence a town hall? And if you could do then perhaps it would be possible to submit true votes, if such an Internet system existed. Personally I don't think we'll see Internet voting any time soon. There is just too much that can go wrong and non-techies (the majority of the population) still doesn't trust the Internet enough. Greg > Can't we move the paper trail off of the paper? :) > > In an ideal (to me) system I would be able to securely vote from the > privacy of my own home, adjust my vote, and be able to go back into the > system and check who I voted for. I suppose that means my vote needs to > be electronically signed by me, but I suppose not necessary traceable > back to me... > > If you can make voting easy enough that people can do it from home would > bring us to the point where we it would be possible to have a direct, > instead of a representative, democracy. Election day could be every day. > > Pat > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
