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Using the Internet To Subvert Democracy

Posted by kdawson on from the you-thought-diebold-was-bad dept.

david_adams writes "All the recent talk about various polls and elections being pranked or hijacked, serious and silly alike, prompted me to write an article about the technical realities behind online polling, and the political fallout of ever becoming subject to online voting for serious elections. Even if we were to be able to limit voting to legitimate, legal voters, the realities of social networking and the rise of Internet-based movements would dramatically alter the political landscape if online voting were to become commonplace."

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  1. Re:Polls != Democracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

    ~ Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States

  2. Re:Dumb article. by DreamsAreOkToo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like how it says that internet based movements would alter the political landscape (translation: people would be heard again) but the article is "Using the Internet to Subvert Democracy."

    Since when was Democracy redefined to, "What the rich and powerful want?"