I'm not sure whether I'm eligible to vote in the UK. I'm British, but have never lived there, so that's likely to throw a spanner into the works as they couldn't allocate my vote to any one constituency.
I'm not too fond of online or, God beware, email voting; from what I've read so far, it's too insecure. (See, for example, reports about machine voting in America recently and how sure they are that things can't get forged.)
I haven't thought about voting much, probably largely due to the fact that I can't vote in general elections here, either, but I don't think that compulsory voting is going to do much good. I can imagine that it will result in more people voting for fringe candidates.
I'm also not sure whether people find the physical process of casting their vote that difficult; I imagine that most people who don't vote either (a) can't make up their minds about whom to vote for or (b) don't care either way.
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Date: December 10th, 2003 05:36 am (UTC)From:I'm not too fond of online or, God beware, email voting; from what I've read so far, it's too insecure. (See, for example, reports about machine voting in America recently and how sure they are that things can't get forged.)
I haven't thought about voting much, probably largely due to the fact that I can't vote in general elections here, either, but I don't think that compulsory voting is going to do much good. I can imagine that it will result in more people voting for fringe candidates.
I'm also not sure whether people find the physical process of casting their vote that difficult; I imagine that most people who don't vote either (a) can't make up their minds about whom to vote for or (b) don't care either way.