Fools Rush In: HuffPo Article Touts Internet Voting , Written By Internet Voting Co Exec

May 14, 2009 Aaron Contorer Chief of Products and Partnerships, Everyone Counts, Inc.

America's Newest State Holds America's Newest Election

Huffington Post.

For too long we have tolerated the idea that elections should be difficult. If you think voting is inconvenient, too bad for you, say pundits. And if elections are expensive and a logistical nightmare to run, oh well, at least there aren't too many of them.

America's newest state, our southernmost state, has a different idea. Right now, as you read this article on the Internet, citizens of Honolulu are voting in America's first all-digital online and telephone election. Residents of neighborhoods with contested board seats received pass-codes in the mail, along with a Web address and a phone number allowing them to vote at any time, day or night, from anywhere in the world.

...In this case the technology manufacturer, a California company called Everyone Counts (where I am Chief of Products and Partnerships), isn't just advancing the art of government. It's also saving taxpayers money, enfranchising voters with disabilities and soldiers overseas, and making life easier for hard-working citizens who may not have time between work and family to go to a polling place but who care deeply about their communities.

What better use of technology? Who would see democracy stuck in the past, a relic of the age before secure encryption, before cash machines, indeed before telephones?

Who would continue our present system in which less than one third of soldiers overseas can successfully vote? Who would leave secure digital communication to the military, while subjecting our democracy to the insecurities of a cardboard box full of papers in someone's trunk?

... BLAH BLAH BLAH .... YOU GET THE GIST OF IT THIS SHOULD BE IN THE PAID ADVERTISEMENT SECTION ALONG WITH THE ADS FOR NATURAL MALE ENHANCEMENT REMEDIES, CAUSE ITS UTTER BULLSHIT.

Here's the link so you can read the rest of the puff piece and post a comment while you are there, ok?