General Politics Discussion

[jgsz]

I think online voting could potentially be a good way to increase voter engagement at a municipal level. While there are undoubtedly security issues that make it pretty much completely inappropriate for elections at the provincial or federal level, I'm not entirely sure those concerns offset the potential for greater participation at a local level.

<cynic>
I will vote in the municipal election even though my inner cynic says:

It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes.  (Stalin?)

"I care not who casts the votes of a nation, provided I can count them.  - Napoleon failed to remark.” — New York Times editorial (26 May 1880).

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how. (Stalin)

Election meddling is as old as elections.  And it happens in all political systems.  Just saying.....
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