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I was just thinking that it would be interesting to do an internet election where everyone who has access to the internet and who plans on voting in the coming general election and or in the GOP race could vote for all the candidates still in the running for GOP nomination - and including Obama - for a minimal cost decided on by those involved, and the winner of the election would take all the proceeds of the event after it was done.
How much you wanna bet that Dr. Paul would win that election? What do you think of that idea? Has this ever been considered or perhaps done and i just missed out on it?
Kind of a neat idea, Ron Paul would probably win as he does with all internet straw polls, although if Obama is the only Dem and the GOP voters are split it could go to Obama. I wonder how many people would actualy pay to do that
If you recall in 2004 they have electronic voting machines in Ohio that were rigged in favor of W... electronic votes are just not trustworthy as too many have no ethics.
If you recall in 2004 they have electronic voting machines in Ohio that were rigged in favor of W... electronic votes are just not trustworthy as too many have no ethics.
We still have electronic machines.
I was involved in the 2004 recount, that was rigged just as bad. If a 3% hand recount showed ANY deviation a full 100% hand recount was required. The 3% test count was supposed to be from randomly selected precincts. In almost every county the 3% ballots had been pre selected and counted prior to the official recount. In Media county they went so fair as to sort the ballots by vote cast. Imagine, you start into a stack of ballots and the first 227 are for bush and the next 354 ballots cast for Kerry, ect. The ballot tabulation equipment isn't equipped to sort ballot (with multiple races why would they), these ballots had been handled after the election day count and the recount. There was no way to tell if ballots had been added or taken away. Of course, each preselected precinct matched.
Of course, the secr. of state, ken blackwell who oversaw the election AND recount was bush's co-chairman.
I was just thinking that it would be interesting to do an internet election where everyone who has access to the internet and who plans on voting in the coming general election and or in the GOP race could vote for all the candidates still in the running for GOP nomination - and including Obama - for a minimal cost decided on by those involved, and the winner of the election would take all the proceeds of the event after it was done.
How much you wanna bet that Dr. Paul would win that election? What do you think of that idea? Has this ever been considered or perhaps done and i just missed out on it?
Thoughts?
I think I read that 77 percent of Americans have Internet access. A very large voting demo is elderly Americans. They always vote in large numbers. How much do you want to bet that the 23 percent without Internet access are primarily elderly Americans? Point is, I don't think it would be predictive as to what would actually happen at the polls.
It's something lots of people have thought about, and it'd be a great idea if you can sort out how to prevent fraud. You don't want the election to go to whoever can find the best hackers.
It's something lots of people have thought about, and it'd be a great idea if you can sort out how to prevent fraud. You don't want the election to go to whoever can find the best hackers.
The only thing a online election would show is how determined Paul supporters are and how many sock puppet accounts they'd be willing to create.
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