A recent study show that over 200,000 Americans didn’t vote in FLA due to long lines!
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-01-19/business/os-voter-lines-statewide-20130118_1_long-lines-sentinel-analysis-state-ken-detzner Think how many there were in the rest of the country.

President Clinton held a Presidential Commission on Internet Voting in the 1990s. The technology has greatly improved since then.

Obama should “fix that” by calling for a new Commission to study how Internet voting can make our election process more democratic and user friendly!

Here’s my letter to the prez: http://internetvotingforall.blogspot.com/2012/12/obama-we-have-to-fix-that.html

Lets keep working together, bro!

William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
Political Scientist, author, speaker,
CEO for The Internet Voting Research and Education Fund
Email: Internetvoting@gmail.com
Blog: http://tinyurl.com/IV4All
Twitter: wjkno1

Author of Internet Voting Now!
Kindle edition: http://tinyurl.com/IntV-Now
In paper: http://tinyurl.com/IVNow2011

I recently reasd the book “Broken Ballots” by Barbara Simons. You can’t find someone more “other side” than her. I paid $25 for the privilege. Silly me. I guess I should have just ordered the “free” copy.

Unlike “Broken Ballots”, which is not available as an E-Book, nor does it have any free preview pages, Dr. Kelleher’s book, “Internet Voting Now”, comes in both formats AND you can read preview pages on the Amazon site for FREE.

Check it out!

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Dear Dr. Dahler:

Thanks for this excellent summary of Chapter 4, Internet Voting Now. Because it is a new Internet based system for candidate selection and election, it may require some time for even reform-minded folks to digest all the elements involved. Abbreviated statements like yours are a very helpful way to get into the new idea.

I would like to point out just how this process can neutralize the power of superrich corporate and individual players in our presidential elections. Both Romney and Obama will probably raise and spend close to one billion dollars each during their campaigns. They are both likely to forgo FEC matching funds, because those come along with complex rules, and limitations on raising and spending. Under the Citizens United rule, nonprofit groups can raise and spend unlimited sums to support their candidate and favored issues. 2012 will surely be awash in money. Of course, the average American will be left far behind in the Money Game, and when its all over, we will also be far in the rear of the line formed to tell the new president what policies we’d like him to follow. The new prez will have to take care of his donors before getting to the voters.

What’s all the money being used for? In a word – advertising. Political ads will fill the air in crowded media markets, on radio, on TV, and online. The aim of these ads is to persuade voters, by hook or by crook, to vote one way or the other. Generally, these efforts at persuasion are not appeals to reason, but consist of tricks and gimmicks that Madison Ave pros have discovered can change the minds of voters, sometimes subliminally.

Now, imagine you are watching a series of debates online or on TV. At the end of the debate you think about what you saw and heard, and then go online to vote. In this very moment all the money in the world spent on political advertising won’t affect your vote. Such ads need time to be repeated and repeated, to influence the mind of the voter. But in my proposed system of Internet voting in a series of elimination debates, there won’t be time for tricky ads. Each voter will base his or her vote on the opinion he or she has formed during and just after each debate. Thus, this system of Internet voting will encourage the voter to exercise his or her independent rational political judgment when voting. Because expensive ads won’t have time to manipulate the mind of the voter in the moment before he or she votes, the money will no longer give the superrich any advantage.

Internet voting, then, will honor the intelligence of the voter, and respect his and her dignity, far more than is done in the money dependent two-party system in which we are all now trapped.

William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
Author: Internet Voting Now!
Twitter: wjkno1
Internetvoting@gmail.com
Blog: http://tinyurl.com/IV4All