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Electronic voting, in addition to security concerns, isn't even a user experience improvement. I remember working at a polling station as a teenager during the
by tvanantwerp 7y ago
Electronic voting, in addition to security concerns, isn't even a user experience improvement.
I remember working at a polling station as a teenager during the 2004 election. One elderly lady needed help understanding how the machines worked, so I showed her how you tapped the buttons on the screen.
Well, this woman had lost a lot of fine motor control. After selecting her choice for president, she went to hit the Next button. Her hand shook so badly that she skipped about five screens worth of races.
I asked her if she's like my help going back to choose candidates for all of the races she accidentally skipped. "No," she replied, "I got the important one."
I'm thankful that this experience, and many others from working the polls, eroded my faith in the system early on in life.
- davinic 7y agoNot to mention the negative impact on parallelization! Hundreds of paper ballot station can easily be setup in a room, but setting up an additional voting machine requires a ton of other things (budgets, purchasing, techs, etc).
- donarb 7y agoPeople do that all the time. Unfortunately, the higher up the office holder, the less they can affect your day-to-day life. It's the local elections that are most important.