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Originally posted by Tom_PM
Hell, they should let people vote from home via the internet. I'd even pay $1.00 for it. Imagine the money we could raise.
Well, if the transaction of money isn't secure in the US, then what is?
Thats the reason ATM's have been around forever with bugs worked out. It involves money, lol
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I'm all for making voting easier for people. It should be as easy as possible for people to cast their ballots. Internet voting might be a tough one though.
You'd have to develop some secure way to verify people vote once, which could be done by issuing everyone some sort of code. But then you'd need to make sure the codes were secure, and people couldn't somehow cheat the system. It seems like internet or phone voting is really risky, and would have to have an extremely elaborate system designed to make it run smoothly and without fraud.
If people vote online or on the phone, then they might also make it more difficult to register to vote in the first place so make sure you really are who you say you are. Here in Arkansas, when we register have to give the normal information, but our drivers license number or the last four digits of our social security number. In addition to that, when we go to the poll to vote for the first time, we have to bring a utility bill in our name that confirms our address.
My fear is that with internet voting, many states would require all those documents when you initially register. This would be insane, and would totally ruin the ability for organizations to effectively do largescale voter registration.
I've worked with organizations that register voters door to door, outside of grocery stores, at concerts, at universities, etc. More requirements for registration would really hinder these registration efforts.
Woops, sorry, I went off on a tangent...
