Honolulu just wrapped up the very first Internet Election. Interesting. Your words come true. HONOLULU â Voting has ended in what is being touted as the nation's first all-digital election, and city officials say it has been a success. Some 115,000 voters in Honolulu's neighborhood council election were able to pick winners entirely online or via telephone. The voting, which started May 6, ended Friday. City officials say the experiment appears to have generated few problems; it has even saved the financially strapped city around $100,000. "It is kind of the wave of the future," said Bryan Mick, a community relations specialist with the city Neighborhood Commission, "so we're kind of glad in a way that we got to be the ones who initiated it." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090523/ap_on_re_us/us_web_voting_1
Ian MacQuaide Honolulu just wrapped up the very first Internet Election. Interesting. Your words come true. HONOLULU â Voting has ended in what is being touted as the nation's first all-digital election, and city officials say it has been a success. Some 115,000 voters in Honolulu's neighborhood council election were able to pick winners entirely online or via telephone. The voting, which started May 6, ended Friday. City officials say the experiment appears to have generated few problems; it has even saved the financially strapped city around $100,000. "It is kind of the wave of the future," said Bryan Mick, a community relations specialist with the city Neighborhood Commission, "so we're kind of glad in a way that we got to be the ones who initiated it." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090523...us_web_voting_1 ................................................................................................ Perhaps the beginnings of "Better Democracy"..... Gates started in his garage....the Wright Brothers on a sandy windy beach....and there were those suspicious of cellular phones .....and those that thought direct access trading was too big a fight with the majors.... The two party by advertising/lobbyist/big corporate run government has got to go....just look at what the political failures have accomplished to this day.... Onward and upwards.... Kudos to Honolulu.....and very interesting in that this city is "the furthest away" from Washington....