Electronic Voting

mm.ie

What an excellent idea. I have just cast my vote electronically and it was easy and simple.

The names and pictures of the canditates are laid out in a long vertical line and you push the red button beside their name and as you push it the number corresponding to your vote comes up on a little screen beside the canditate.

If you make a mistake you simply push the button again and the screen goes blank and you vote again.

I threw in a vote for the christian democrat canditate then s******ed and pushed the button again to watch it go blank.... a satisfying moment.

Aspro

I threw in a vote for the christian democrat canditate then s******ed and pushed the button again to watch it go blank.... a satisfying moment.

Amen to that brother!

Still, I'm not convinced that a general election we've waited five years to have is the best time to try this out.
It's just not as transparent as traditional methods.
Why the need for a quick result all of a sudden?

The government were perfectly happy to wade through all the corruption, scandals, industrial disputes and degeneration of services just so long as they arrogantly insisted on staying the full duration of their term.

Now they want near instantaneous results that are not open to dispute - no recounts, no spoilt votes etc.

Smacks of an attack on democracy to me. And it won't make people any more enthusiastic about voting just because they get to push a button.:mad:

Victor

Originally posted by mm.ie
The names and pictures of the canditates are laid out in a long vertical line and you push the red button beside their name and as you push it the number corresponding to your vote comes up on a little screen beside the canditate.

Do you press them in order? As in press #1 is for candidate #1, press #2 is for candidate #2 and so on.

What options are there other that to vote for candidates and 'clear'.

sceptre

Press them in order. If you make a mistake, press that button again and the vote for that candidate will disappear.

So let's say I vote
Dustin 1
Sockey 2
Zig 3
Zag 4

If ai change my mind about voting for Zig, I press that button and my number 3 preference will disappear. As will my 4 for Zag. My first two will stay the same, I just carry on my preferences from 3.

tribble

Don't get me wrong but I also dislike the lack of transparency of e-voting.
I study computers in college, play with them in my spare time (i have this thing for experimental os's) and sell the bastards for a living - but i'll be damned if i trust them, or to be more precise, their operators.
I regard the election of a government as too important to conduct through the ether with the current government presiding over the whole operation...

Am i just being paraniod?


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Worztron

Electronic voting will be brought in eventually. It is inevitable. Paper voting is way out dated and cumbersome to count. If they used a computer program (preferably running on a GNU/Linux OS) that used on the fly GPG encryption then there should be no security problems.

Eliot Rosewater

Zombie thread. If you want you can start a new thread about e-voting.