(European Union) e-Democracy entrepreneur: ‘Online voting will boom in coming years’

EurActiv ^ | 08/01/2014

[Olog-hai]

More and more governments are introducing tools to have citizens vote electronically and via the internet in elections. The next step, according to the e-democracy entrepreneur, Antonio Mugica, is creating tools for people to engage with lawmakers on a daily basis.

Antonio Mugica is the CEO of Smartmatic, a London-based company working in the field of electronic voting and internet voting. …

[Olog-hai]

Hilarious. They already vote for parliament members that have no power to write any laws. What would something like this do but increase fraud and destroy ballot anonymity?

[Vigilanteman]

The reality is that corporations have been doing this successfully for more than a decade with stockholder voting.

The only hitch is that you actually have to own the stock. You can't just show up and claim your rights to vote yourself more free sh*t paid for by somebody else.

[elpadre]

Whoever controls the poll station computers will control the election. Every politician will have the best available hacker on staff. Every computer can be compromised - and that’s a fact!!

[Clump]

No matter what we do the left is going to cheat, and cheat big.
LBJ did it in 1948, and countless others have gotten away with it using differing technologies.
The common denominator is the people in charge of the integrity of the election process.
If leftists partisans are in charge then the election results will always be suspect.
It’s demoralizing.

[Bubba_Leroy]

What would something like this do but increase fraud and destroy ballot anonymity?

I'm pretty sure that is the point.

"Democracy" is so much more efficient when you don't have to let the sheeple run things.

[Sacajaweau]

And the great promise will be...."secure"...

And we all know that there is no such thing as electronic security.

[DJ MacWoW]

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