Assuming the security and privacy issues could be taken care of, and given the problems listed here it won't happen any time soon, could internet voting, if it became widespread, replace the electoral college?
It seems at least part of the reason the electoral college was established was to solve the difficulty the early American population - made up of small, wide spread rural communities - had in handling the administrative problems of getting out the vote.
Streamlining the administrative burden of the voting system, in addition to eliminating the need for the archaic electoral college, would also, hopefully, eliminate the time zone problem. In CA we already know who is going to win before our polls close, hence fewer people vote at the end of the day. Maybe with online voting the US polls could close all at the same time.
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Assuming the security and privacy issues could be taken care of, and given the problems listed here it won't happen any time soon, could internet voting, if it became widespread, replace the electoral college?
It seems at least part of the reason the electoral college was established was to solve the difficulty the early American population - made up of small, wide spread rural communities - had in handling the administrative problems of getting out the vote.
Streamlining the administrative burden of the voting system, in addition to eliminating the need for the archaic electoral college, would also, hopefully, eliminate the time zone problem. In CA we already know who is going to win before our polls close, hence fewer people vote at the end of the day. Maybe with online voting the US polls could close all at the same time.
The text of the bill can be found at
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http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:1:./
This is the "Introduced in the House" version. The "Reported in the House" version is also available.