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 -- 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/
