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Old 05-28-2006, 12:31 PM   #91 (permalink)
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While that sounds scary, I can put it into some perspective that won't be as bad. A single American Idol viewer who is a loser with no life can spend the entire night voting for his/her favourite singer and cast literally hundreds of votes. Or some computer savvy person can come up with a program to automatically call in and vote thousands of times. So each vote for American Idol does not equal one person, as it does (or is supposed to) for the presidential vote. But still, roughly only 25% of eligible voters vote in presidential elections, and that is sad.
actually it's already happening

Text message voting to be trialled
"Voters in Liverpool and Sheffield will be able to cast their ballot by sending a mobile phone text message in May's local elections."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1802956.stm

swissinfo - Historic SMS vote deemed ballot box success
"The first ever vote by mobile phone has passed off without any major hitches in the Swiss town of Blach.

More than 11 per cent of the electorate used the Short Messaging System (SMS) to cast their vote in a local poll on Sunda"
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissin...=1130692769000
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