Eh, its not so much technophobia as it is a simple case of "It ain't broke"-ism.
Seriously, there is no need for your country to go beyond the "paper slips and pencils" level of voting. While we Canadians don't have the same
overall population as you the population density in our largest cities is easily comprable to your own and yet we manage to have orderly fraud-free elections
for the most part.
Perhaps introducing machine assisted voting will make sense two or three generations from now when everyone in the world is computer-literate to the same level
you are. However it makes no sense to introduce confusing machine assisted voting (and no matter how clear you find it I gaurentee there is somebody out there
who finds it byzantinely obfuscating) while we still have several generations particpating who can not reliable operate their answering machines, much less a
computer voting terminal.
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Epsilon
Seriously, there is no need for your country to go beyond the "paper slips and pencils" level of voting. While we Canadians don't have the same
overall population as you the population density in our largest cities is easily comprable to your own and yet we manage to have orderly fraud-free elections
for the most part.
Perhaps introducing machine assisted voting will make sense two or three generations from now when everyone in the world is computer-literate to the same level
you are. However it makes no sense to introduce confusing machine assisted voting (and no matter how clear you find it I gaurentee there is somebody out there
who finds it byzantinely obfuscating) while we still have several generations particpating who can not reliable operate their answering machines, much less a
computer voting terminal.
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Epsilon