New Way to Vote

Democrats have been thinking about imposing a way to cast a person’s vote for a candidate through the internet. This has also prompted the Republicans to make a move as well to try to move toward internet voting. This was brought up at an Iowa Committee Meeting earlier this week, according to FOX News. This would lead to more voters for candidates and would reach a much larger amount of people if it was done online. But what are the risks and how would this be carried out in the first place?

                I think that if voting did move to an online ballot there would be major flaws in the system. Even though computers are accurate most of the time there are always errors that can occur. With so many people going to one particular website it could crash instantly and lose all of the votes casted. Hackers would also be a problem. They could infiltrate the system change votes or crash the system. With the technology that people have there is no way that this could be stopped and hacking would be the biggest problem that they will face. The cons outweigh the pros in this certain type of situation and there would be launching problems just like the Obamacare website that opened up to the public later last year.

                Some good things about the new way of voting are that more people would have access to voting. United States citizens who are out of the country can vote for the candidate that they choose. This would lead to more votes being cast and could lead to all-time highs in votes in the United States. Also, with the internet being such a huge factor in today’s society and all young people are on the internet in some way it could lead to more young people voting in political elections. Younger people have lost some interest in politics today and it has hurt the political realm of America. The more young people a candidate can get the better off he or she will be throughout the election.  

                Elections in the United States has been the same way for a hundred years and maybe some change wouldn't be such of a bad thing for the way elections are ran. Not only could it lead to record showings for elections but it could persuade younger people to actually partake in political elections and rejuvenate how young adults think about politics. The more people that vote the bigger of an impact politics will have on society. But even though these things might be true the problems would be too great for this project to be carried out. It would lead to more problems than solutions and would hurt politics more than anything.