Internet Voting
What is your initial point-of-view?
My initial point-of-view on the subject of a system where people could vote online in local, state, and national elections is very positive, with some reservations. For example, while it makes sense to encourage voting in any way possible -- the turnout for national elections has been inconsistent and sketchy in the past few years, sometimes less than 50% of eligible voters come out -- the potential for abuse is always a consideration when dealing with online issues. Still, initially I think that enfranchising more voters in any reasonably safe way -- and giving honest, concerned voters an easier way to share in democracy -- is a good idea.
TWO: How can you define your point-of-view more clearly?
The advantages of voting online are many, and according to a scholarly research article in the Canadian Parliamentary Review (DeBardeleben, et al., 2010, p. 1), the positive aspects of allowing online voting relate to technology, social issues and election administration. I can see these viewpoints very clearly and I back them up one hundred percent. In the first place, the most obvious advantage of online voting is it would make the process much simpler and more accessible for voters. A person that is disabled, for example, would not have to go to the trouble of getting a ride and using wheelchair access at the polling place. The disabled person would not even have to fill out an absentee ballot and place a stamp on it and mail it. It would just be a matter of logging on by using a secure password and voting from the living room or wherever that person has his or her computer located.
Moreover, using a computer to vote will "…substantially lower the cost of voting for many electors by creating more access points from which they are able to vote" (DeBardeleben, p. 1). Besides lowering the cost, voting online will also lower the amount of carbon gasses being released into the atmosphere. That may seem like a token advantage, but imagine if on election day a million fewer cars were used to drive to the polling places -- some quite a distance away from voters' homes -- that is a huge reduction...
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