Voting Drops 83 Percent In All-Digital Election

For the first time ever, Oahu residents had to use their phones or computers to vote with some surprising results. 7,300 people voted this year, compared to 44,000 people the previous year, a drop of about 83 percent. "It is disappointing, compared to two years ago. This is the first time there is no paper ballot to speak of. So again, this is a huge change and I know that, and given the budget, this is a best that we could do," said Joan Manke of the city Neighborhood Commission. She added that voters obviously did not know about or did not embrace the changes.

Finally

[Suiggy]

We need more all-digital elections. I don't trust people who are not intelligent enough to use a computer to be informed enough to vote in my jurisdiction.

You're Doing It Wrong

[eldavojohn]

7,300 people voted this year, compared to 44,000 people the previous year, a drop of about 83 percent.

If all you're concerned about is number of votes, put each candidate on prime time television belting out the worst songs they can think of. Then instruct viewers to vote with their cell phones. Don't forget to charge them 99 cents a call and limit them to 10 votes ... the populace seems to love that.

Granted, they might not be the best candidate for the position, there will be 10 million votes and you'll have a $9.9 million surplus to decide what to do with. On top of that, your elected official will be able to sing "Oops, I Did It Again" by Britney Spears whenever they screw anything up.

Oahu?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahu [wikipedia.org].

digital ballot stuffing

[madbavarian]

Give them a couple of years and the digital ballot stuffing software will get better. The voter numbers should be waaaay up.

Re:Who cooked up this scheme?

[saleenS281]

You forgot a step.

1) Con city into using Company A
2) Sign fat contract with Company A
3) Hold election (sweep massive FAIL under rug)
4) ????
5) Profit

The worst news . . .

[hcetSJ]

was that those 7,300 votes were all cast by the same person.

Re:Finally

[Arancaytar]

In before Rick Astley becomes President of Oahu. :)

Re:No faith

[Jherek Carnelian]

Or they had just heard about how abysmally inaccurate previous all-digital elections had been and figured, "why bother?"

Nah. Dis stay Hawai'i brah, no ones know bout all da kine kapakai. We's jus wen to da beach an forgot about da kine.