Apparently one of the things they liked was that people would not see them, not as they voted, but as they were going in to vote. To them, it represented an increase in privacy.
Weird - that never occured to me at all! Perhaps, being a techy, I'm too aware of the data collection possibilities...
I hadn't realised you got this stuff as well - I suppose they're always talking about trying to get young people involved in democracy. Anyway, sorry about reminding you of work in your free time!
Re: oh joy! a post about my job!
Date: December 19th, 2003 05:59 am (UTC)From:Weird - that never occured to me at all! Perhaps, being a techy, I'm too aware of the data collection possibilities...
I hadn't realised you got this stuff as well - I suppose they're always talking about trying to get young people involved in democracy. Anyway, sorry about reminding you of work in your free time!