Unfortunately I am registered and vote. But since I am forced to go to meet the very pretentiously called " civic duty, I can at least take the opportunity to make a few observations.
really is just an observation: do not think it should replace our voting mechanism for an electronic .
technology enthusiasts style Nicholas Negroponte often predict (and craving) that everything that can be digital will be digital . Following this idea, there are many people that it seems an anachronism inexcusable mark their choice on paper made of atoms. However, in the case of elections, the atoms replacing bits (I think that was the metaphor Negroponte wearing) could cause a serious problem.
The current system functions with records in book form, analog with pencil signatures, a ballot paper that is also marked with a pencil and ink on a finger. This is a simple, transparent, can be understood by anyone and that allows the counting is done publicly, in view of those who want to witness it. If there is a change to an electronic voting system, would move from a low-tech technology to a mechanism more complex and require expert operation. In this jump, I think, would be a significant loss of transparency. Elections at least vote count would no longer be a procedure that anyone can understand and follow as it is today.
Here is a good example of a modernizing reform failed miserably recently in part by discarding a low-tech solution : Transantiago. The new public transport plan that eliminated forever coordination indispensable agent of the old system, the toad , and the frequencies of the routes simply stopped working. Without a functional substitute for the coordinating agent, can still see how they spend two or three microphones of the same course together and empty. These days
of technological euphoria, we should not forget the importance of and the solutions are still low-tech to solve problems of social life.
picture obtained here .
really is just an observation: do not think it should replace our voting mechanism for an electronic .
technology enthusiasts style Nicholas Negroponte often predict (and craving) that everything that can be digital will be digital . Following this idea, there are many people that it seems an anachronism inexcusable mark their choice on paper made of atoms. However, in the case of elections, the atoms replacing bits (I think that was the metaphor Negroponte wearing) could cause a serious problem.
The current system functions with records in book form, analog with pencil signatures, a ballot paper that is also marked with a pencil and ink on a finger. This is a simple, transparent, can be understood by anyone and that allows the counting is done publicly, in view of those who want to witness it. If there is a change to an electronic voting system, would move from a low-tech technology to a mechanism more complex and require expert operation. In this jump, I think, would be a significant loss of transparency. Elections at least vote count would no longer be a procedure that anyone can understand and follow as it is today.
Here is a good example of a modernizing reform failed miserably recently in part by discarding a low-tech solution : Transantiago. The new public transport plan that eliminated forever coordination indispensable agent of the old system, the toad , and the frequencies of the routes simply stopped working. Without a functional substitute for the coordinating agent, can still see how they spend two or three microphones of the same course together and empty. These days
of technological euphoria, we should not forget the importance of and the solutions are still low-tech to solve problems of social life.
picture obtained here .
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