So I found this article on the “Columbus Dispatch”, my home newspaper’s webpage, and was disgusted especially. This may be me on a soap box or may just be personal opinion, but with situations such as described in this article where close to 5,000 election reminders have mistakes on them that have been sent out; it really makes me question is there a better way or more efficient way to run elections. In this day of age it seems that the way elections are run is almost outdated and completely inefficient. I began to think about this last spring when I went to vote for the various Levys on the ballot, only to find out I was not at the correct polling place thanks to a printed off book of names and pages that did not provide much more than an inconvenience and almost deterred me from voting. I think the archaic way we run elections currently needs to be looked at very closely and consulted in the near future because very soon the population will be our generation of learners, who don’t always seem to appreciate the systems of the past and could easily be turned off and made apathetic about the pace and end all value of the process. I think we need to look at better ways to make the process efficient and maybe more technologically advanced, such is the rest of the world, to persuade others out to the poll and voice their opinion, and use their civic duties.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/11/01/election-cards-have-errors.html?sid=101
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I completley agree with you about the the voter ineffeceincies that we face today. With the world being very digital now, and everything evolving into computer operated. I think there should be a new system for voting that will attract voters of the 21st century. Most people don't vote because they look at it as a chore or something that will take up time and is a confusing process. But I feel if they revolutionized the way we vote this could all change, if voting was as easy as a click of a button from my own personal computer or even from my cell phone, we would have a larger voter participation. Everything else can be done from the internet, with the right implementation of a internet voting process, we could make voting more convenient and do away with the negative connotation of it being a hassle.
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