It's 2010 and we still go in, stand in a not-very-private booth and put our pencil X in a box. Someone then has to physically unfold and count them. It doesn't seem very efficient. Surely it's a candidate for computerisation. It's not exactly rocket science. I could knock it together in an afternoon...
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21st century voting system
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Quiet.
A much more modern version would be to put a chip into head of every citizen (no chip - no vote) and let them vote on all sort of issues every evening after Question Time.
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Originally posted by k2p2 View PostIt's 2010 and we still go in, stand in a not-very-private booth and put our pencil X in a box. Someone then has to physically unfold and count them. It doesn't seem very efficient. Surely it's a candidate for computerisation. It's not exactly rocket science. I could knock it together in an afternoon...
No, it is all just a part of an anachronistic system that includes all sort of other extraneous nonsense like trips to see the Queen. Pomp, Pageantry, Pathetic. What we do best. The result is a side issue really.
HTH“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostComment
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Originally posted by k2p2 View PostIt's 2010 and we still go in, stand in a not-very-private booth and put our pencil X in a box. Someone then has to physically unfold and count them. It doesn't seem very efficient. Surely it's a candidate for computerisation. It's not exactly rocket science. I could knock it together in an afternoon...Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostQuiet.
A much more modern version would be to put a chip into head of every citizen (no chip - no vote) and let them vote on all sort of issues every evening after Question Time.
Arsenture can allegedly implement it in 50 years for just £500 bln.Comment
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Originally posted by threaded View PostAnd before tea time I'll have it electing 'threaded's anarchist party' by a land slide.
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Sometimes a pencil really is the right tool for the job.
(Yes I am the man who once canned the development of a project team wiki and bought them a blackboard instead)Comment
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'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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