I was listening to the Mike Stafford morning show on AM 640. His topic addressed whether or not we should be given the opportunity to vote online for the federal election. This service was available for the first time in Burlington, Ontario for our 2010 Municipal Elections. Did I vote online? Not this time.
What about you? Would you vote online?
Stafford had a flurry of listeners call in to give their opinions. With no surprise, the feedback flipped back and forth in favour or not in favour of being able to vote online.
Proponents argued that due to our fast pace, facebook, twitter, "bbm" ing, texting society, such a service would be well received and dramatically increase the participation rate of voting by Canadians.
Opponents argued that has society decayed that much that we were unable to personally go to a voting station and place our vote? This would allow for intensive reflection regarding the merits of the candidates and who would inevitably be their choice. These people cited that online voters would not give the time required to make conscientious decisions. In fact, they worried that the fringe groups like the Rhinoceros Party (still hovering in Quebec according to Stafford) would get a ton of votes due to the ease of pointing and clicking online.
Below is a link to the podcast of this show if you are interested.
http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Audio.aspx
Thanks for reading. Looking forward to your comments.
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