03/27/2009 08:26:17 PM EST
Internet Voting
posted by johntkr
How better to bring freedom into the 21<sup>st</sup> Century than to vote on every legislative bill that impacts this country. Many will say that it cannot be done. Albeit, we know that our entire country depends on the Internet working properly in order to be a country. Most of our wealthiest companies members vote through the Internet. Many countries including England, and Australia have had limited Internet voting, which has been for political candidates, rather than on specific laws or the like.
We are currently dependent on politicians to represent us. When we see bonus money going to CEOs, while we, as the public, have reject this idea before it was approved by our so called representatives, it is time for a complete change in our way of seeking Democracy. Each change in how we have voted has been met with resistance. There was once a time when votes were only called out, and then there was resistance to paper ballots. Given that Democracy is almost nonexistent in the US and many other countries, I say let there be Democracy. This may only happen by Internet voting.
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sp; We can have voting the same way there are products sold on the Internet. There are descriptions, ratings, and records of people’s purchases of products. We can surely do the same for voting on each bill. The key is to keep blogging this issue, collect many ideas and then petition for Internet Voting to be put into law. Let the free market of ideas bring Internet Voting on Every Bill into reality. We can have our politicians write up the bills and we can be the deciders in a direct way. We can vote for or against ourselves.
We currently have a government that ignores the US Constitution whenever it is convenient. For example, Congress voted for the President, meaning W to go to war, which is unconstitutional. Congress does not have the Constitutional right to vote for the President to send the US to war. The President may unilaterally send the US to war with a limit of 90 days when in unusual circumstances that apply to immediate danger to our country’s national security. Only Congress may vote, under the US Constitution, for the US to go to war. Ron Paul explains this part of the Constitution well. You may want to read up on Thomas Jefferson and other founders of this government, and the US Constitution. &nb
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Most people pay their taxes in the US via the Internet. Many countries, including Britain and Australia, in isolated cases, use Internet voting for general elections as we speak. Major companies vote on specific choices via Internet. Our entire country depends on computers, which includes our current voting system.
Past Comments and Responses from other site:
"Right...........? Allow every poorly educated American a right to vote on some complex issues?"
Dictators argue that the general public is too ill-informed to make decisions about their countries.
Animal Farm, by Eric Arthur Blair, known as George Orwell by penn name, is the book that comes to mind about this issue. &nb
sp; Internet Voting may well be the solution to the government that currently ignores the will of the people.
