I Voted? Electronic Voting has its Ups and Downs
by Greg Crandell
With tomorrow being Election Day (shocking, I know), we know we can expect two things from the whole process. One, lots of waiting. We wait and wait and wait. Lots of it.
Two: trouble. With a capital "t" and that rhymes with "e" and that stands for "electronic voting".Click here for examples.
For some reason, we can figure out how to make a robot land on Mars and dig up soil samples. We can make a piece of software the size of a pocketsquare that can access the internet, download songs and turn on your TV. We can make a program that lets you NOT email drunk (go to clickconnectcommunicate.com for that little gem). Why can't we figure out a way to record votes?
The truth is we could. Personally, I think the future lies online. Everyone does their banking, monitors their kids and gets their degree online these days...why not use the Internet?
See, we do it all the time at DigitalMailer. For credit unions, it's important to get member participation going to make decisions that affect the CU as a whole. And we get good results, because everyone has their own voting link to click and everyone gets their say without drawn out processes and aggravating paperwork. How long until the whole country gets a clue?
Personally, I blame a lot of the problems on the machines - or rather, their makers - who haven't proofed this stuff accurately and haven't ensured we don't have another "Florida" in every state in the union. Hopefully the lack of sanity won't drive people away from the polls tomorrow. And if it does, we'll know who to blame for the whole month of December and then forget about for three years.
Hope everyone's voting day tomorrow yields results. And for more on our voting programs, go to our evoting page by clicking here.
With tomorrow being Election Day (shocking, I know), we know we can expect two things from the whole process. One, lots of waiting. We wait and wait and wait. Lots of it.
Two: trouble. With a capital "t" and that rhymes with "e" and that stands for "electronic voting".Click here for examples.
For some reason, we can figure out how to make a robot land on Mars and dig up soil samples. We can make a piece of software the size of a pocketsquare that can access the internet, download songs and turn on your TV. We can make a program that lets you NOT email drunk (go to clickconnectcommunicate.com for that little gem). Why can't we figure out a way to record votes?
The truth is we could. Personally, I think the future lies online. Everyone does their banking, monitors their kids and gets their degree online these days...why not use the Internet?
See, we do it all the time at DigitalMailer. For credit unions, it's important to get member participation going to make decisions that affect the CU as a whole. And we get good results, because everyone has their own voting link to click and everyone gets their say without drawn out processes and aggravating paperwork. How long until the whole country gets a clue?
Personally, I blame a lot of the problems on the machines - or rather, their makers - who haven't proofed this stuff accurately and haven't ensured we don't have another "Florida" in every state in the union. Hopefully the lack of sanity won't drive people away from the polls tomorrow. And if it does, we'll know who to blame for the whole month of December and then forget about for three years.
Hope everyone's voting day tomorrow yields results. And for more on our voting programs, go to our evoting page by clicking here.
posted by DigitalMailer, Inc. at
9:44 AM
1 Comments:
Hey.. I voted on my way in to work today and then stopped for my FREE Starbucks coffee! Yeah, that's right, show your "I voted" sticker and get a free tall coffee today. I also heard you can get a free donut at Krispy Kreme as well. Great work by both companies to promote voting and themselves. Maybe financial institutions can take note for their elections. Anyone hear of anything else worth mentioning?
Ron
p.s. Guess those millions of folks that voted absentee ballot are SOL and kicking themselves today.
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