One small step by a voting public,

has begun the process of moving US Election procedures into the 21st Century.

HONOLULU -- Voting used to be a community affair, conducted with paper ballots at schools, churches and other public venues. Then the electronic age arrived and voting moved to computer touch screens at the usual polling places.

Now Honolulu has just taken its first tentative steps in transforming voting into a home activity.

Friday marked the last day of Web-based voting for neighborhood advisory board seats in what is being touted as the nation's first all-digital election.

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 ... so we're kind of glad in a way that we got to be the ones who initiated it," said Bryan Mick, a community relations specialist with the city Neighborhood Commission.

Web voting will make it easier for civilian and military voters who live overseas or those who just don't have time in their busy days to visit a polling place, said Lori Steele, head of Everyone Counts, the San Diego, Calif.-based firm chosen by the commission to run the election.

"There are vast numbers of voters that really struggle with the current processes of voting," she said.

However, Web voting cannot be used in city council or state elections because state law bars voting systems that do not include a vote verification process, said Warren Stewart, legislative policy director for Verified Voting Foundation, a nonpartisan advocacy group.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/24/honolulu-hosts-nations-digital-election/

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Did the public actually get to vote on this?

Misleading title. This was done FOR a voting public, not BY a voting public.

Wonder how hard it will be for some 13 year old hacker to rig an election?

TerryRC wrote:Did the public actually get to vote on this?

Misleading title. This was done FOR a voting public, not BY a voting public.

Now just what is it that you do not comprehend about it being "the nation's first all-digital election".

Puffing on that Wacky Tobacca again, huh?

TerryRC wrote:Wonder how hard it will be for some 13 year old hacker to rig an election?

Bout as hard as it now is to f---up a Bank's Customer Data Base ...... or ...... to rig the PowerBall or MegaMillions Lottery drawing so that they have the Winning #'s.

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Now just what is it that you do not comprehend about it being "the nation's first all-digital election".

Puffing on that Wacky Tobacca again, huh?

You didn't answer the question. Yes, the public voted by internet. We get than Sammy.

Did they get to vote on this, or were they told they were going to do it by election officials?

If so, it really wasn't done by the voting public, it was done by election officials.

Get the difference, or are you too drunk on Bud Light? Girls and sissies drink Bud Light, by the way.

Hey, I'm a girl and I don't drink Bud Light. If I'm going to drink a beer, and this is a rare occasion but it does happen, I'm going to drink a Michelob or Rogue's Dead Man's Ale.

Get the difference, or are you too drunk on Bud Light? Girls and sissies drink Bud Light, by the way.

Oh goodness. Our own gurlyman Sam is outed again.

Only an intentional obfuscating clueless lefty liberal authoritarian would ask such a silly assed question of:

TerryRC wrote: Did they get to vote on this, or were they told they were going to do it (voted by internet) by election officials?

And for sure, ……. birds of a feather flock together, ….. especially Looney Birds, to wit:

ziggy wrote:

Get the difference, or are you too drunk on Bud Light? Girls and sissies drink Bud Light, by the way.

Oh goodness. Our own gurlyman Sam is outed again.

Maybe you two should start drinking Budweiser, …… with a lot of luck and a little praying it might help smarten you up a mite.

And ps: Maybe the Honolulu Election Officials will let their residents vote on their Election Statues and Rules …… just as soon as West Virginia lets its residents vote on any pending or changes in its Election Statutes and Rules.

And then maybe Obama and compardrees will follow suit and have a National Election everytime they want to change Election Laws.

How can one soar like an Eagle ..... when they have to put up with turkeys?

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Maybe you two should start drinking Budweiser, …… with a lot of luck and a little praying it might help smarten you up a mite.

I do drink Bud (not the light) and you never answered the question.

Did the public get to vote on internet voting? If not, this was done FOR a voting public, not BY a voting public.

That may be too subtle for our little Sammy.