As we approach another election, and the supreme court has shown support in favor of Texas Republicans, I ask this one question; When will we be the future and start relying on technological advances and start voting online?
Last year I forwarded a powerpoint to an old high school classmate of mine. I explained that for about 6 months, I was thinking and documenting this idea of voting online. Why can't we do it? We speak our minds through Twitter, Facebook, and endless blog sites. Yet, the internet is still not secure enough to allow us to vote for congressmen and women, senators, and the president.
Why can't we vote online, where we conduct banking transactions, IRS transactions, pay our mortgage, rent, and all other sorts of business online; including requesting a Tax ID for a business. I'm pretty sure we can put in place a few steps to make it happen. Do you think your elected officials would support it? Imagine they instantly received our feedback on how we wanted them to vote. Imagine while voting for them, we can review what we're voting for. Imagine when they polled us, we can give a 97% reflection of how we feel about a law.
I came up with idea, and I'm hoping it catches on.
Online Voting will without a doubt change America. However, it will receive a lot of apprehension before it is accepted.
There is a need for online voting whether politicians like it or not. In fact, we'd progress faster with online voting. Barack Obama would have to deal with less false opposition if it were to happen in his presidency.
Take away long lines, see more people voting in polls, main elections, midterm elections, and special elections.
We can make online voting the most secure process. We can make information hard to duplicate.
We do so much online already. Traditions can fade. This will be very rewarding.
With so many steps incorporated, hackers will have a series of problems to work through.
We try to make online voting easy for everyone.
The best part is, its easy for the country to raise a substantial amount of money.
I'm pretty sure there are gaps in the powerpoint. you get the drift though. This can be the next big thing. Don't sit on it.
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