Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Is New York City Ready For Digital Voting?

Posted by Soulskill on from the only-if-they-can-do-it-from-a-cab dept.

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."

5 of 93 comments (clear)

  1. If you're too lazy to vote - no I don't care... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're too lazy to vote - no, I don't care about your opinion.

    (Can't make it to your polling place? I'll bet you can find some time in the months leading up to the election to vote absentee. Don't have transportation to go vote? There are a dozen different programs and thousands of volunteers who will help. GOML!)

    1. Re:If you're too lazy to vote - no I don't care... by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ..just move the voting to sundays, like every other sensible western nation does it.

      digital remote voting, which enables vote selling and coercion? fuck that. it goes against every basic principle of being able to vote what you want no matter what your employer or even spouse tells you.

      --
      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  2. Re:No No No by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Electronic voting just makes it easier to rig elections.

    I presumed that's what they meant by "modernize the electoral process"

    --
    An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
  3. Spoken like a non-techie by SirGarlon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone who thinks that new technology for voting will improve transparency, inclusion, and accountability has not been keeping up with the news. Or bothered to search the EFF web site.

    Or is his platform, "Oh, never mind the past! We'll get it right *this* time!"

    --
    [Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
  4. Undo Gerrymandering? by NReitzel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If some very bright person could figure out how to under gerrymandering of precincts, I'd vote for them on that principle alone.

    Nobody likes that idea, though, because it threatens all the little fiefdoms established in congress and state legislatures, and might result in the end of millions of dollars of corporate bribes, er, contributions.

    To Congressdorks: Remember Arab Spring. It can happen here.

    --

    Don't take life too seriously; it isn't permanent.