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Over the past several week's valuable information and understanding of how government works with regards to e-Governance and technology. The government has been a crucial part of our daily lives with the decision-making process and how things operate. As I have been continuing the pursuit of my Masters Degree in Public Administration, the knowledge, and information that is learned will make you wonder about our so-called government system.
E-Democracy has been a major part of our society that has integrated itself slowly into our society and as I have learned with electronics. E-Democracy allows people to interact with their politicians and personal use such as emails. This idea will enable citizens to be an equal participant in our political process as we know it today. The focal of this blog will be about online voting and how it will better the process of every American especially the ones that may not access to transportation.
Online voting has been a debate for years and several European countries such as Belgium and Estonia which have seen great success with over 30% of the voters have used the internet for casting ballots. With elections the main focus is to bring efficiency and transparency to government and paper ballots are still done in some places to increase security and integrity. There will always be doubt on how the process of online voting will be handled with regards to making sure there isn’t any cheating going on.
Should America take the same path as the other countries? United States using e-voting (also known as Electronic Voting) which a system to aid in casting and counting votes. Now if you’ve ever voted before then, you know how the process works along with the stories of voting system failures. In general, two main types of e-Voting are identifiable:- E-Voting which was physically supervised by representatives of governmental or independent electoral authorities (e.g. electronic voting machines located at polling stations).
- Remote e-Voting where voting is performed within the voter's sole influence and is not physically supervised by representatives of governmental authorities (e.g. voting from one's personal computer, mobile phone, television via the internet (also called i-voting).
E-Democracy is a part of the process which helps citizens vote freely. We know the voting process here has been penniless such as redistricting, changing voting laws and targets a certain ethnic group of people. Go back to the Bush/Gore election back in 2000 that cause a Supreme Court battle of ballots. That year Florida was given to Gore, and out of nowhere, Bush was given Florida which ultimately led to Al Gore’s defeat. Something was real funny about that entire election voting process and system which now Americans look for honesty within the voting process.
With the online voting I feel that is saves money and time for the states as well as the people. Arizona in the year of 2000 was the first state in the country to cast binding votes in a national election which I think is pretty cool. This really work well for the political participation that resulting in more marketing of candidates, fundraising events, and the issues that are being presented at this time. Here are two independent websites that have started to promote online voting and they are election.com and voter.com. This movement of online voting has become serious as we see in our political candidate today.
What a few weeks it has been and the information being giving out for a better understanding of how technology works with government. And I have been privileged to give information that I hope will inspire and encourage a lot of people to take part in the political process. Be ahead of the Government as they are slowly trying to keep pace with change and show them how actions speak louder than words.
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