Blue Sailor
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The government of Canada is set to vote on electoral reform. Specifically, the members of Parliament have to decide whether or not to act on the recommendations of a committee that looked into the status of democracy in our country.
It’s interesting to me that the report recommends against electronic voting, even though it makes specific mentions of efforts to increase voter turnout and to see a larger number of youth, women, and historically marginalized populations like disabled people participate in the democratic exercise.
Wouldn’t online voting encourage more young people to vote? Wouldn’t it increase access for mothers of small children and people who have limited mobility? It takes a lot of spoons for some people to get out to the polling place, after all!
Does electronic voting exist where you live? If not, would you be in favor of trying it out?
Philippines even starting to use electronic voting which for me is not safe. It can be easily tampered.
Is it an option, or must everyone vote electronically?
Not an option, all our ballots must be verified by a machine.
So it’s a paper ballot that’s read by machine? Ours are all still read by humans.
I live in Chicago, the home of voter fraud. I’ve served as an election judge so I’ve seen it first hand. It’s not as bad as it used to be but I still wouldn’t trust electronic voting.
Voting is still very low-tech in Canada. I think most people trust that best.
I agree. If they can hack the internet and my bank, think what they can do with the votes. It’s a paper vote for me.
And yet many people will file their taxes online….