Tag Archives: online voting

Voting Access in the U.S. – “We can fix this”

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Rob Weber

President Obama clearly cares about voting rights and voter access. He also seems determined to do something about it. I am quite heartened by this. In the short span of three months, the President has put the issue of long … Continue reading →

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Voting Access – “Our Journey Is Not Complete”

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Rob Weber

On election night in November President Obama referenced the disgusting status quo of long lines on election day. “We have to fix that”, the President said. Today, in his second inaugural address, the President again told the country that he … Continue reading →

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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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Online Voting vs. Paper – Papier est Passe

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Rob W.

(Editorial Note: This post from November 2011 has been this blog’s most popular. Given this year’s attention on the broken election administration system in the U.S., I am reprinting it below without edit) ——————————————————————— I have been meaning to post … 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: 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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