[Newsbot]

Title: Online protest planned for Election Day
Category: Political
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-05-01 17:30:06
Canadian

[Smacle]

Easy fix. Elections Canada doesn't release any info until voting is finished accross Canada. BAM!

[Curtman]

$1:

If you tweet on May 2 before all the polls have officially closed, and you label your tweet or Facebook status update with #TweettheResults, your message will be automatically streamed into a live feed that will gather messages from across the country. The resulting tweets will be used as a form of online protest, a message to politicians that times have changed.

I hope Politwitter gets safe harbour protection if it somehow accidentally reports what is happening.

[andyt]

Smacle Smacle:

Easy fix. Elections Canada doesn't release any info until voting is finished accross Canada. BAM!

Agreed. Except they'd have to not even count the votes before the polls were closed, because somebody would talk. So what if the results come in a bit later - Canada will abide.

Or, we could move into the 21st century and use computer voting.

[Regina]

If this is the wave of the future then they should have NO results until the last poll is closed. For some it will be like Christmas............wake up to see what you got.

[saturn_656]

andyt andyt:

Or, we could move into the 21st century and use computer voting.

Do you trust our network security that much?

I don't.

[Curtman]

Regina Regina:

If this is the wave of the future then they should have NO results until the last poll is closed. For some it will be like Christmas............wake up to see what you got.

This is the Stanley Cup of politics. You can't do that to me.

[Regina]

Curtman Curtman:

Regina Regina:

If this is the wave of the future then they should have NO results until the last poll is closed. For some it will be like Christmas............wake up to see what you got.

This is the Stanley Cup of politics. You can't do that to me.

Probably more people interested in the hockey game anyway.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

Or, we could move into the 21st century and use computer voting.

Nice idea, but too many security gaps. Consider this - if you need a computer to vote, and voting is a right then someone has to give you a computer.

I like the idea, and think it could be done. There is just no political will to enable the voters whom they count on to abstain.

[andyt]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

andyt andyt:

Or, we could move into the 21st century and use computer voting.

Nice idea, but too many security gaps. Consider this - if you need a computer to vote, and voting is a right then someone has to give you a computer.

I like the idea, and think it could be done. There is just no political will to enable the voters whom they count on to abstain.

It doesn't necessarily have to be done from home. Just use computers at a polling station. Still makes tabulating the results a lot faster.

Personally I like the paper and pencil. We've certainly had way less problems than the US with their systems. (But paper and pencil has it's own problems for miscounting, losing ballot boxes, etc.) And so what if we have to wait a bit longer for the results if the votes aren't counted until all polls close.

[Curtman]

andyt andyt:

It doesn't necessarily have to be done from home. Just use computers at a polling station. Still makes tabulating the results a lot faster.

Personally I like the paper and pencil. We've certainly had way less problems than the US with their systems. (But paper and pencil has it's own problems for miscounting, losing ballot boxes, etc.) And so what if we have to wait a bit longer for the results if the votes aren't counted until all polls close.

Now you're scaring me. Electronic voting is a disaster so far. There needs to be a paper trail. I'd be okay with it if after you voted, it printed a ballot for you to put in the box. I don't trust my vote to a computer.

[Lemmy]

Why are we concerned about network security, etc.? Like it matters which party wins the election.

[Public_Domain]

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

It doesn't necessarily have to be done from home. Just use computers at a polling station. Still makes tabulating the results a lot faster.

I don't think 'faster' should be a reason. They get tabulated pretty fast as is. Using computers at polling stations only increased the ease with which results can be hijacked.

andyt andyt:

Personally I like the paper and pencil. We've certainly had way less problems than the US with their systems. (But paper and pencil has it's own problems for miscounting, losing ballot boxes, etc.) And so what if we have to wait a bit longer for the results if the votes aren't counted until all polls close.

I agree. But I also think for places like 'Dog Leg' Yukon, a portable iPod sized device that only does election stuff could also be useful.

[andyt]

So now you're arguing in part for electronic voting? If it works there, wouldn't it work just as well in the big smoke?