1st Real Internet-Option Election in North America

gpmap writes "From the London Free Press: As voters across Ontario were preparing to head to the polls today to elect their municipal leaders, a technological first was quietly taking place in the easternmost reaches of the province. About 100,000 voters the counties of Prescott-Russell and Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry were registered to cast their ballots online. Under a new system developed by CanVote Inc., an eastern Ontario startup company, registered voters in 11 area municipalities had the option of voting via the Internet or telephone. "I believe we're the first to do a real full Internet election in North America," said Joe Church, president of CanVote Inc. "People vote by Internet or telephone at their choice. There is no conventional ballot at all." Voters were issued a PIN number with conventional registration cards mailed to area households. Since Nov. 5, people have been logging on to a CanVote website to vote. Church said the new system makes democracy more accessible by removing such barriers to voting as limited mobility or even poor weather." Of course, systems like ProxyVote have been around for a while, but those are commercial issues, rather then state issues.

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[mrtroy]

You stupid fuck. I am from London. Let me explain why its called London.

English explorers settled in this area. They started looking around, and found a river. They thought it looked like the "thames" river back home, so they named it the thames river. Then a town formed on the forks of the thames. So they named this town London.

So you want original city names? How about "York" as Toronto was called, which isnt original. But the US "New York" is a knockoff of York, which is also English.

North America is filled with cities, rivers, mountains, and any other thing that is named which have been named after primarily European names

So shut the fuck up, and leave London alone.