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Old 18-01-2015, 05:50 PM #13
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Originally Posted by Jamesy View Post
Online voting would be a better system. I think most young people just dread having to go to a polling station and probably feel it's a time consuming job. Having an option to vote online would be a good step forwards to encourage more people to get involved.

Obviously keep polling stations and postal voting like we have now. Just add online voting as an additional way for the younger generations.
I think if anything has been shown lately, it's that things like elections are not ready to go digital. Security simply isn't tight enough to stop hacker groups from covertly fiddling results or, at the very least, simply crippling the system so that the vote has to be scrapped.
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