British E-Voting Pilots Announced

rimberg writes "The Department for Constitutional Affairs has announced it is going to trial Electronic voting using the internet and/or telephone. Bridget Prentice, Elections Minister at the department said 'We need to make sure that people can vote in more convenient ways consistent with a modern lifestyle. [...] More and more people, and particularly young people, are using the internet everyday. We need to see if we can use this to encourage people even more to participate in the democratic process.' The Open Rights Group (Think British EFF) have responded by saying 'E-voting threatens the integrity of our elections and we oppose its use in our democracy.'"

Comments

Increased turnout

[Kelz]

I do definitely plan to vote against Labor in the next election.

... now if only I didn't live in the US!

Re:Increased turnout

[Stephen Williams]

I'm in the UK. Fancy doing a vote swap? I'll vote against Labour, and you can vote against the Republicans at your next election :-)

-Stephen

really?

[User 956]

British E-Voting Pilots Announced

I was wondering when they'd let Otto do something more than just fly the plane.

I bet my EVote goes to /dev/null

[Anonymous Coward]

Ironically that's also the only candidate worth voting for.

Secure voting will be a tough undertaking

[MonGuSE]

All I have to say is my 2 million zombie controlled pc's will be voting for myself in the next election.

Perl Script for PM!

[malevolentjelly]

I can't wait until Perl Script wins a seat in Parliament, or perhaps even position as Prime Minister!

Re:Perl Script for PM!

[Anonymous Coward]

Downing street is now scrambling to contribute CPAN modules that launch illegal wars and hand out peerages for cash.

I can just imagine parliment now

[antifoidulus]

"The hounourable Prime Minister Goatse man of the GNAUK Party wishes to have the floor"

Re:Why must it be stupidly convenient?

[The One and Only]

Would we be any worse of if voters had to take a simple test before voting?

We had this in the United States, but it ended up that black people always failed the tests, so we made it illegal because it was racist.

Re:DDS Attacks?

[Walt Dismal]

Hahhaahha. Ouch, thank you for correcting. My typo bad. I did mean distributed denial of service. Er, my Engleesh she not so good, here in Nigeria the schools suck. Please send money to me by Western Union, I guarantee terrific election results.

Re:E-voting is the future and it should stay there

[mibus]

You'd let people vote directly on a war? Remember that the U.S. initiative against Iraq was helped by the confusion in the popular mind that the 9/11 hijackers had significant ties to Iraq. If the public is emotionally stirred up and ignorant enough, all kinds of bad things can happen if you give them the change to go wild. Furthermore, the people would instantly vote away their liberties if they thought it would gain them some security, and they would then turn on that portion of the population which rejected calls for tighter restrictions on whatever matters.

Yup, I'm so glad we don't let people vote directly. We'd be at war and be losing civil liberties left and right!

I would like to made proposale.

[sporkme]

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