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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

Even if UNC had dramatically higher turnout due to online voting, I
seriously doubt that online voting will have much of an impact on voter
turnout in the general public for awhile, at least until the use of and
reliance on computers in the general public becomes as widespread as it
is on UNC's campus. These days you cannot survive at UNC without a
computer, and life at UNC is designed to force you to use a computer for
practically everything, whether you want to or not. In fact, laptop
ownership has been mandatory for incoming freshmen since last year, and
every student has access to an Ethernet connection to the Internet that
even puts T1 to shame and makes not just dial-up, but also DSL and cable
modem look painfully slow, and unlike the general public, UNC students
take high-speed online access for granted and computer use has become
second nature. 

- Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdthomas AT mindspring.com [mailto:mdthomas AT mindspring.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:10 AM
> To: InterNetWorkers
> Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Europe likes eVoting (link)
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> Doh! Too much book writing recently.
> 
> Here's the link:
> 
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51838,00.html

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:04:31 -0400 "Michael D. Thomas"
<mdthomas AT mindspring.com> wrote:



[I heard that UNC Student Government elections
have had dramatically higher turnout since
going to online voting.]

Europeans Eye E-Vote Eventuality

"Confidence should not be sacrificed for
convenience," said Jim Adler, president and CEO
of VoteHere, a Washington-based supplier of
election software and services. "We have the
technology to deal with the worst horror
scenarios that anyone can think of in terms of
virus attacks or denial-of-service attacks, but
we have to go further in educating and reassuring
people about the integrity of e-voting." 




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