’)Online Voting
By: Unwelcome Perspective
Why are we not voting online yet? It seems to me that there is a conspiracy to prevent everyone but old people from voting. Old people are available on election day, because they don’t work on Tuesday. They also benefit from absentee voting, because they are the only people who still use the mail. As for the rest of us, we work, move, and have long since given up on the Postal Service. We should be voting online.
The main argument against internet voting is that the internet isn’t secure. Really? It was secure enough to pay my taxes. The IRS didn’t seem to have any security issues with TurboTax relaying them my tax return the past two years. And I know I don’t speak for everyone, but I really could give a hoot about the security of my vote. But I do care about my TAX DOLLARS. If someone hacks into my vote and diverts it to a candidate I don’t like, big deal. But if my tax return somehow doesn’t make it to the IRS, big government gets to pay a formal visit into my personal life.
If we could vote online, I cannot even begin to imagine how much voting would increase among Americans. People want the youth to go to the polls; let them fill out their ballot on Facebook. Stoners could vote from the laptops on their couches and maybe this country would finally legalize weed. Hey, even homeless people could vote at the library computers. Voting would no longer be a hassle, and everyone would be more likely to participate. Maybe that’s the reason why we’re not allowed to do it.