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I don't agree with that last sentence though. It's not more complex because you don't need to spread booths all around the country, get volunteers to sit a whol

by relix 13y ago

I don't agree with that last sentence though. It's not more complex because you don't need to spread booths all around the country, get volunteers to sit a whole day at the booths, secure the ballots, count the ballots, recount the ballots, etc... It takes a lot of logistics to do papervoting and it's probably more expensive too, compared to a centralized datacenter. They probably still have booths for people without computers, but they surely need less. Also, if voting is not compulsory, there's a lot less friction to actually go vote from the comfort of your home, whenever you want, than there is to get to a booth and stand in a queue on voting day, it would surely result in a higher turnout.

DanBC 13y ago
The UK has had problems with fathers using the votes of everyone in their family via postal voting. I'd be interested to see if electronic voting fixes that, or makes it worse.
- relix 13y ago
  It fixes it somewhat, depending how far the person will go to claim those votes: iirc you get a week to vote, and the last vote you make counts. So even though your father might stand next to you and watch as you vote for his candidate, you can always recast your vote later. This doesn't solve the problem in case the person keeps an eye on you from the time you voted until the deadline, or steals your ID card until after the deadline.
  - Already__Taken 13y ago
    You can build in some tolerances of this to the system like you say cast vote at any time however surely at some point these people must call the police about their situation. Technology can't fix this issue it can only kid of accomodate it.
- lazyjones 13y ago
  Austria allegedly has a problem with nursing homes getting many (mail) votes for the parties who have political influence on staff decisions. I can imagine that there are similar problems everywhere, but electronic votes might cause much bigger issues because it's too easy for ruling parties to manipulate the central systems where votes are stores/counted (they were planned to be deployed in the interior ministry here, the one held by Ernst Strasser [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Strasser#2011_cash_for_influence_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Strasser#2011_cash_for_i...] for 4 years).

by relix 13y ago

DanBC 13y ago

The UK has had problems with fathers using the votes of everyone in their family via postal voting. I'd be interested to see if electronic voting fixes that, or makes it worse.

relix 13y ago
It fixes it somewhat, depending how far the person will go to claim those votes: iirc you get a week to vote, and the last vote you make counts. So even though your father might stand next to you and watch as you vote for his candidate, you can always recast your vote later. This doesn't solve the problem in case the person keeps an eye on you from the time you voted until the deadline, or steals your ID card until after the deadline.
- Already__Taken 13y ago
  You can build in some tolerances of this to the system like you say cast vote at any time however surely at some point these people must call the police about their situation. Technology can't fix this issue it can only kid of accomodate it.
lazyjones 13y ago
Austria allegedly has a problem with nursing homes getting many (mail) votes for the parties who have political influence on staff decisions. I can imagine that there are similar problems everywhere, but electronic votes might cause much bigger issues because it's too easy for ruling parties to manipulate the central systems where votes are stores/counted (they were planned to be deployed in the interior ministry here, the one held by Ernst Strasser [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Strasser#2011_cash_for_influence_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Strasser#2011_cash_for_i...] for 4 years).