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E-VOTING
The Electoral Commission in the UK has advised e-voting should be suspended until elections have been modernized. This follows pilots of the system in the May local elections. Their main fear concerns security of voting.
My fears range much wider. First of all, what do they mean by ‘until elections have been modernised’? Who, in government, has suggested such a thing? Surely that’s up to the British public to decide. But no, the language suggests inevitability.
Problems all the way
So, folks, an election coming soon, decided by the click of the computer. Wouldn’t it be easy? Everyone could vote – no problem. Except … problem number one: If something becomes too easy, you do it without thinking. And hey presto, if you can’t get rid of elections to stay in power, turn the electorate into unthinking sheep instead.
And then we have problem number two. When something becomes so easy, don’t you just want to do it again and again? Afraid so. The time will be here when direct democracy could become a reality – the time when everyone votes on everything.
Bye bye minorities
Hope you’re not gay in such a world – or an ethnic minority; or too fat; or just someone who thinks different. Direct democracy, you see, always confirms the absolute choice of the majority.
Think deeply about e-voting before you go down that slippery road. Hitler is reborn in the microchip. And it’s us.
© Anthony North, August 2007
THE GOODY AND MORGAN SHOW
If you want to know what’s wrong with modern culture, you couldn’t have done better than watching ‘You Can’t fire Me, I’m Famous’ on BBC1, 31 July 2007. Watching Piers Morgan interview Jade Goody was quite nauseating …
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AN IMPORTANT FEW DAYS
It has been a vitally important couple of days for the UK and the world. First of all, the 38 year mission of the British Army in Northern Ireland has come to an end. A conflict that split so much of the UK, it is testament to how the world has changed …
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