21st century voting system

[mudskipper]

It's 2010 and we still go in, stand in a not-very-private booth and put our pencil X in a box. Someone then has to physically unfold and count them. It doesn't seem very efficient. Surely it's a candidate for computerisation. It's not exactly rocket science. I could knock it together in an afternoon...

[AtW]

Quiet.

A much more modern version would be to put a chip into head of every citizen (no chip - no vote) and let them vote on all sort of issues every evening after Question Time.

Arsenture can allegedly implement it in 50 years for just £500 bln.

[shaunbhoy]

It's 2010 and we still go in, stand in a not-very-private booth and put our pencil X in a box. Someone then has to physically unfold and count them. It doesn't seem very efficient. Surely it's a candidate for computerisation. It's not exactly rocket science. I could knock it together in an afternoon...

This is done to choose a Government. Efficiency is not very high on the list of priorities. Besides, where is the fun in computerising it all?
No, it is all just a part of an anachronistic system that includes all sort of other extraneous nonsense like trips to see the Queen. Pomp, Pageantry, Pathetic. What we do best. The result is a side issue really.

HTH

[NickFitz]

California voting machine security tests uncover serious vulnerabilities

[mudskipper]

California voting machine security tests uncover serious vulnerabilities

The 'security' at my polling station is me walking in, no ID, giving the lady my name and her ticking me off on a list. The 'counting' of my vote relies on human integrity. I think I can better that in my afternoon's development.

[threaded]

It's 2010 and we still go in, stand in a not-very-private booth and put our pencil X in a box. Someone then has to physically unfold and count them. It doesn't seem very efficient. Surely it's a candidate for computerisation. It's not exactly rocket science. I could knock it together in an afternoon...

And before tea time I'll have it electing 'threaded's anarchist party' by a land slide.

[mudskipper]

Quiet.

A much more modern version would be to put a chip into head of every citizen (no chip - no vote) and let them vote on all sort of issues every evening after Question Time.

Arsenture can allegedly implement it in 50 years for just £500 bln.

Would the chip have a built in alcohol sensor? I don't think people should be allowed to vote on critical issues after 8pm due to likely blurring of reason.

[shaunbhoy]

And before tea time I'll have it electing 'threaded's anarchist party' by a land slide.

This Party of yours.................where can I get a butchers at the Manifesto?

[thunderlizard]

Sometimes a pencil really is the right tool for the job.
(Yes I am the man who once canned the development of a project team wiki and bought them a blackboard instead)

[northernladuk]

Would the chip have a built in alcohol sensor? I don't think people should be allowed to vote on critical issues after 8pm due to likely blurring of reason.

You can't vote while drunk it appears....

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