Cyber The Vote!

How often in daily political banter do we hear about how “The American People” want this or that. How the American People have spoken. Politicians say that the American People sent them there to do this or that. Politicos cite polls showing that the American people are for or against this or that.

The American people. Is that ALL of the American people? Is EVERY American in agreement on this or that? Of course not.
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Aside from playing on voters’ natural initial concerns about whether online voting is secure, and doing so in a manner that can only be described as fear-mongering, anti-online voting advocates try to come up with other reasons why online voting is the wrong direction to take. One of them is a classic “blame the consumer” approach.

One of the primary tactics of the oil industry to perpetuate the burning of fossil fuels, as opposed to investing in renewable energy, is to blame the consumer for his addiction to oil. Continue reading →

Upside down and inside out.

There is so much to be gained from online voting. So many more of us would vote, and that would bring our democracy to new levels. Yet when you read about this issue (what little there is to read) the discussion is somehow so often about the “dangers” of online voting. As if we have so much to lose if we adopt internet voting. It’s bizarro.
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Sometimes it seems hard to fathom how much the world has changed in the last 20 years. It has changed so much that it is now equally hard to fathom living without so many of the things that are part of the fabric of our existence today.
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Sometimes we allow ourselves to get so caught up in arguments over whether something works or not, or is good enough or not, that we forget whether that thing is simply necessary or not.

This is more and more the case today in our country as we somehow find ourselves drawn into endless debate by those who want to do just that, debate, rather than implement.
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When opponents of online voting want to back up their argument that voting online is “unsafe” and “unreliable”, they invariably point to the “experiment” of online voting in Washington, D.C in 2010.

Meanwhile, when I want to back up my contention that online voting is threatening to very powerful special interests, I can point to the intense crowing that opponents of internet voting do over the D.C. experiment’s failure as a transparent example of how much these interests fear online voting. And they hope to use this “fiasco” as a tool to prevent any successful legitimate trials of online voting in the United States.
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