Legislation introduced by Councilman Fernando Cabrera on Wednesday would require an online voting system where absentee and military ballots could be cast in certain municipal elections.
The proposed system would allow primary, runoff and general election ballots to be cast for mayor, public advocate, city comptroller, borough presidents and council members. A spokeswoman for Cabrera said the system, which would not initially be available for all voters, represents a “baby step.”
There would be a password attached to the proposed voting process, according to the Cabrera spokeswoman. His office is also working with SOE Software, a company that specializes in election modernization.
Still, the idea of online voting worries Neal Rosenstein, government reform coordinator of the New York Public Interest Research Group.
“There’s a ton of folks who say that the system wouldn’t be secure,” he said. “Public confidence in the election process is the most important thing.”
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Right now any Mexican can go to the polls and give the name of some dead Spaniard and cast his illegal ballot to push extra dems into office who will legalize him and give him free schools and doctors.
How is it secure now?
Why can't I text my vote while the light is green since I'll have to wait anyway since that's when all the Mexicans think they're supposed to cross the street?
If I can bank online why can't I vote online?
One year my brother was logged in as my father (same names) even though their signatures are totally different. Neither the nice old lady at the table or my brother are terribly on the ball!
Then my father had to vote as my brother!!!!
We should use thumb-print id when voting. Thumb-prints should also be on our driving licenses.
Each booth could have a thumb-print scanner - the technology is already old school!
And then fine the people that don't vote - lazy, stupid idiots!
Why can't I text my vote while the light is green since I'll have to wait anyway since that's when all the Mexicans think they're supposed to cross the street?
The really funny thing when I read racist comments like this (almost certainly typed by a pol's hack to try to keep this blog a bad rap) is that foreigners take seriously politics and its involvement while Americans are apathetic leaving addled seniors ("Isn't Lizzy Crowley a sweet lady?" or "I read in the Gazette that Jimmy is going places" and "I vote Democratic in 2013 because Roosevelt and Kennedy were great presidents and they care for the people") or the largest block - the apathetic ("Who cares they are all crooks anyway and you cannot fight city hall")
"His office is also working with SOE Software, a company that specializes in election modernization."
Yeah. Right.
And the city hired a software company for it's timekeeping and payroll system that supposedly specialized in that discipline. Look what happened there.
And the Feds couldn't even get a working website up and running on time for Obama-care. Another disaster.
And we are supposed to trust an on-line system for managing and calculating our most important civic duty, voting for our representatives.
Yeah. Right.
NYC voting = fraud.
NYC Online voting = more fraud.
The only non-fraudulent voting happening in this country is where you must present a government-issued photo-id and a signature that matches your voter enrollment record.
Yeah, the way that guy talks about Mexicans and Democrats you'd think we have an unprecedented refugee crisis on our southern border created by Democratic Party policies that are now well-known in Central and South America.
oh, wait a minute...
The system is rigged no matter how we go. Stuff a ballot box...."recount" the votes so they favor a county pick....fudge with an online system. There is no privacy guarantee as it is. You get a voting order number when you vote today, don't you? So the government knows who you vote for. Just match your number with your reserved spot on the voting apparatus. Bingo! Better hope we do not wind up with a totalitarian system one day. Knock, knock....in the middle of the night..."So, you did not vote for Toby Stavisky. Please come with us".
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