Author Archives: Rob Weber

Why are we waiting IN LINE when we could be voting ONLINE?

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Rob Weber

Happy Election Day. Did you vote? If you are a voter in Florida, perhaps you already voted early. In that case perhaps you waited four hours in line to vote. No doubt anybody in that situation would ask the question, … Continue reading →

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Polls, Polls, and “Pols”

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Rob Weber

Poll: Place where people go to vote. Poll: Survey of a sample of people, the results of which are usually extrapolated to indicate the opinions or preferences of a larger population. “Pol”: Politician, elected official. What do these homonyms have … Continue reading →

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The Great Suppressor…

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Rob Weber

Oh yes, I’m the great suppressor. Who am I? I am the polling place. There is certainly a lot of talk these days about attempts to suppress the vote. Draconian photo ID laws, measures akin to poll taxes, restrictions to … Continue reading →

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How We Vote & How We Vote

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Rob Weber

Defining “how we vote”: 1) Which candidate we vote for in an election. 2) The type of technology we use to cast our vote. In an election year, all the attention in the world gets paid to “how we vote”. … Continue reading →

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Online Voting and ways it can get money out of US Politics

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Rob Weber

  In an earlier post, “Follow The Money”, I discuss the hold the television attack ad has on our political system, and why I feel online voting can help change that through greater participation in the process by younger, working … Continue reading →

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Online Voting – Who’s Rushing?

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Rob Weber

PBS recently ran a segment devoted to online voting. It began by telling the compelling story of West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant and her bold commitment to providing access to overseas voters. Unfortunately the piece then made the … Continue reading →

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Voting Access Heroine: Natalie Tennant (West Virginia Secretary of State)

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Rob Weber

Opponents of online voting may have chosen the wrong public official to try to scare away with their typical gang-up bullying tactics. Natalie Tennant is the Secretary of State of West Virginia. As Dr. Kelleher reported on his blog last … Continue reading →

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Online Voting: The Conversation

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Rob Weber

I often talk about the conversation about online voting and how one-sided it can be. When I refer to this “conversation” I am referring to it in a very general sense. No matter what the forum – online blog posts, … Continue reading →

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Online Voting Advocates – Our numbers are small but growing!

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Rob Weber

Opponents of online voting in the United States have seen a lot of success when it has come to poisoning the conversation about whether we should be voting using digital methods or whether we should remain in the dark ages … Continue reading →

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Follow The Money

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Rob Weber

In my last post entitled “Polls, polls, and ‘Pols’”, I pointed out how our voting system, election system, and political system all disenfranchise the younger voter to the detriment of us all. I mention how the senior vote is targeted … Continue reading →

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