Posted on 04/06/2014 8:04:11 PM PDT by null and void
It’s finally happening. An entire municipality will utilize online-only voting in the next election with all balloting to be run via Scytl, the tech company based in Barcelona, Spain.
The controversial rollout is being deployed not in the U.S., where Scytl two years ago acquired 100 percent of SOE Software, the leading software provider of election management solutions in the United States. The online-only vote will take place Oct. 27 in Canada, when Leamington, Ontario, will become the first Canadian municipality to cast all ballots via an Internet-only voting process.
Every registered voter in Leamington, with a population of about 17,000, must cast ballots through mobile devices or computer.
Feedback on the news site expressed nearly universal concern about Internet security. Nearly all reader comments opposed the idea of online-only voting.
One reader wrote: “Putting an election online is fraud waiting to happen. It is a dare, to every criminal, and every mere tinkerer, anywhere in the word, to disrupt, modify, even cancel the results.”
Another warned: “He who controls the voting technology can decide the results. Stick with paper.”
“One giant step backwards for democracy,” wrote another commenter.
U.S. next?
The U.S. may not be too far from Internet voting. In January, President Obama’s special commission on election reform recommended future electronic voting, even suggesting tablet computers, such as iPads, be used to cast votes, as WND exclusively reported.
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Obama’s panel was chaired by Robert F. Bauer, the president’s personal attorney who served as White House counsel until 2011.
With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“The online-only vote will take place Oct. 27 in Canada, when Leamington, Ontario, will become the first Canadian municipality to cast all ballots via an Internet-only voting process.”...
What could possibly go wrong? (sarc)
We need more practice FReeping polls.
They will just use it as an excuse to issue obamalaptops.
Just vote the phone book...
So not only our government can manipulate results, but with Obama giving the internet away, Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela can have a say now, too!
I'd be willing to bet that any internet voting scheme will either violate voter validation or anonymity. One or the other will be compromised unless a lot of safeguards are put into place. Probably both.
Because we know that Internet polls are SO accurate!
How convenient. No ID required. No long lines. Monitored by an outside US 3rd party non-partisan agency. 100 percent Barack H. Obama approved. Barry’s birth certificate attorney Bob Bauer spearheading the implementation. Sounds quite ginger peachy to me so far! So you will get a screen with everything already
pre-selected for you. All you have to do is push send. Keep in mind that pushing send is your only option. Also feel free to push send as many times as you like. It is encouraged to do so!
This is Canada, eh?
We’re next, with everything you say, and soooo much more.
There is absolutely no way that I would trust this country with all-online-electronic voting.
It’s Canada, anyway.
You don’t know what you are talking about. I don’t think you have ever seen Labor working a campaign.
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