Is New York City Ready For Digital Voting?

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Turnout for local elections in New York City was 33.7 percent in 2010, according to Fair Vote. And while some apps and startups are looking to resurrect turnouts in future elections, most candidates still couldn't tell you how they work or why they might be necessary. Benjamin Kallos is a candidate for New York City Council's fifth district, which includes the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island, and has his sights on modernizing the electoral process. He's campaigning on a high-tech platform that he says aims to deepen technology's role in promoting transparency, inclusion, and accountability within pockets of New York City's voting pool that remain largely disengaged."

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Betteridge's law of headlines

[ardmhacha]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Re:If you're too lazy to vote - no I don't care...

[Anonymous Coward]

What about people who are logical enough to see that their individual vote has no statistical significance and thus is a waste of their time?

"But it should be a privilege to vote! You're throwing away the rights given to you by democracy!"

I'm well aware of that, but I'm a realist, and am not going to do something that has no tangible personal benefit.

Re: If you're too lazy to vote - no I don't care..

[IrquiM]

I am voting electronically this year in the Norwegian election. If somebody is stupid enough to give me money for voting for a certain party, then let them. I can vote as many times as I want, and it is only the last vote that counts. If I want to be even more evil, I can vote by paper as well, and let the guy paying money to see me vote on the net be there until the end. The paper vote superseded the electronic one.