Now, I don't want anyone to think that this blog is going to be politics-centric; it just so happens that that's what's going on right now, and it does take my fancy...in a very layman's way.
Anyway, I had a quick chat with a friend of mine today, and he said "you didn't vote enough times in the marginal seats!"
Of course, he was joking - I've never voted more than once in an election...but it does raise questions about our existing system and the prevelance of multiple votes.
I don't have the figures on how often multiple voting occurs, but one could assume that it happens and happens often, which begs the question in a modern society such as ours, why is our voting system so archaic that multiple voting able to occur?
Anway, my solution to this is simple...why doesn't the AEC send every enrolled voter a disposable barcode that must be swiped at the polling booth? No card, no vote.
The barcode would be linked back to the voters enrolment number (or name, whatever they use to record us), and once swiped it's rendered useless, which means the individual can not vote again in a different booth. I want royalties please (seriously!).
To keep our polling anonymous, we could still use the paper polling and then wait 10 or so days for the results to be announced....or better yet, lets computerise it and get the results that same night.
How simple and easy would that be?
Use your brains, fella's....it's not rocket science! Then again, I guess you'd need to find another way to stay in a job if shock! horror! we modernised our system!
Alternatively, we could always dip our finger in a pot of ink as they do in other parts of the world!
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