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["Michael Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>]

Good point here...

Also, online voting brings up digital divide issues.

It seems to me that online voting makes it 
disproportionately easier for the technology
rich to vote. Or at least, it could be perceived
that way, which is all that is needed in politics.

> 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)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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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