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Do standard text messaging charges apply?

lildorothyparker on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 2:48pm

bluesarahlou on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 3:05pm

wow, can't see that happening here though. It would mean a lot more young voters and the way the numbers work out that is a huge advantage for the Dems, I can't see Republicans allowing that to happen.

zeze on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 3:23pm

That's great! Now let's have people sign up for other kinds of votes, as in "I want to vote about everything related to health", too. Make the citicizen's votes count 25~75%, elected politicians get the rest of that. Now THAT would be real democracy! And in real-time, too!

Murmur314 on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 3:32pm

wow, this would definitely swing the votes in favor of more technologically savvy voters interesting. I feel like there has to be a better way to vote. Who says what we have is secure anyways? shrug

LaurenG22 on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 4:35pm

lol @ the first comment. I'd vote by paper if I had to pay for the text.

bsglrok132 on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 5:56pm

^ imagine we'd have to pay to vote..sheesh! Sticking out tongue

momma tikita on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 7:35pm

Hey if you have to pay, maybe you'll pay more attention to who you're voting for!

bluesarahlou on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 7:46pm

Or what (and I'm talking to you pro Prop 8'ers) you're voting for.

bluesarahlou on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 7:47pm

Apparently I've mastered emoticons, but not bold type Embarassed

bluesarahlou on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 7:49pm

haha I noticed...

momma tikita on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 7:50pm

I think this is great, I wish it would work for a country our size but I doubt it would.

floppyfish1986 on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 9:51pm

Not sure how safe this is but there must be a better way than having the entire populations go to voting boots.
I think the internet would be good, we have Digi-D that is used for our taxdeclaration over the internet and it is based on ID nr, so that would work I think.

Sarana on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 7:07am

If the paper votes can cancel out the phone votes, than that would imply that someone is recording who each person voted for in order to cancel out the correct vote. That doesn't seem to be a very private way of voting to me.

kscincotta on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 7:38am

If it can be done right that would be awesome. I didn't have to wait long at the polls but I know other people had to wait hours. This would really help get people out to vote.

JaimeLeah526 on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 2:34pm

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LibertySugar Says:

 

American Idol may let you text in your vote, but Estonia will be the first actual country to implement voting by cell phone. Technologically-savvy citizens will place chips into their cell phones, that authenticate identifications, before they cast their ballots for the 2011 parliamentary election.

Estonia has already used online voting, without any major security breaches. In order to prevent coercion that might happen when people vote in private, Estonians can still cancel out their e-votes with a paper ballot. An independent study found that the new vote-by-phone procedure should go off without any manipulation or malfunctions.

Would you like to see more access to democracy from voting options like Internet or phone voting? I guess we'll be looking to E-stonia to see how it's done!
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