On 1/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >[Instant ubiquitous voting] 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.
>
> Consider: such a system has been /technologically/ possible since
> the development of the telephone system. It never took off there,
> despite the inherent advantages (tracability, exclusion of
> 'bots, etc) such a system offers.
>
> In a more primitive form still, consider the writing of letters to
> elected representatives. How many people even bother with that?
>

True... all of the sudden my 802.11 helmet cam project is starting to
look appealing again...

eVote/OpenVOTE is complicated.

:)

Greg
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