Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting

InternetVoting writes "The ever technology forward nation sometimes known as 'E-stonia' after recently performing the world's first national Internet election are already leaving e-voting behind. Estonia is now considering voting from mobile phones using SIM cards as identification, dubbed 'm-voting.' From the article: 'Mobile ID is more convenient in that one does not have to attach a special ID card reader to one's computer. A cell phone performs the functions of an ID card and card reader at one and the same time.'"

Re:How about this...

[Gabest]

Yes, and you can vote as many times you wish! (1 euro/sms + tax)

Tried this in the UK

[LiquidCoooled]

We tried this in the UK, but for some reason the votes were still being counted 3 hours after the results were announced.

clamshell democracy

[MillionthMonkey]

Instead of a representative government, where we periodically vote for representatives and send them to Washington, I suggest a government of the people, by the people, who have cellphones. A government of cell towers situated along superhighways would gather a representative sample of Americans and we can replace our arcane parliamentary procedures with wireless ones, where the power is held by the people, as they drive past particular points on the road.

Think of how convenient that would be. You could vote to condemn a newspaper ad from the comfort of your car as you drive to work. I can't tell you how many times I've needed to do that. Because if I say "zero" it undercuts my argument.

But you ask, how would we ever pay for such a wonderful system? That's easy. Just sell it to a bunch of stupid investors as "web 2.0 style socialization".

This would be a very sophisticated form of government for a large democracy. Smaller ones could use Bluetooth.