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The Future of Democracy

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Robert Sheppard - 19/12/2005

Koert Debeuf - 15/12/2005

Natalia Leshchenko - from Minsk - 01/12/2005

Marco Grasso - from Milan - 28/11/2005

Matthias - 03/11/2005
I believe e-voting is not the best at all. Technology, in fact, means more potential mistakes, simply because no technology is perfect. At each step of the process, errors can occur. So this will affect the final outcome. The old manual system is more accurate, simply because there are fewer steps. But it seems we are willing to sacrifice accuracy to get a voting system that will make elections more quickly. I'm wondering: Do we really need speed? or we should prefer accuracy? Matthias

Andy - 03/11/2005
What has made democracy such a desirable idea is not really understood! Modern representative democracy encourages us to think about equality and this is what gives to democracy such political appeal. While, in my opinion, democracy is the way to hide world economic inequality and defende powerful lobbies. Andy

Kersti Haarkman - 02/11/2005
E–voting seems like a fantastic idea. Counting is what computers have to do! automated voting sshould be a logic pgression. But what i'm afraid of is when the computer is voting instead of the people. And this is what probabily people fear from e–voting: if you don’t see and "touch" and "feel" your vote - which you can’t if it’s electronic - how can you know that it’s has been recorded correctly?

Llanos Gomez Reino - 02/11/2005
I think that technology - computers, telephones and internet - can be a serious threat for democracy. Private companies are just trying to make up some initiatives to convince us about its democratic power. I believe that technology can address many other disparities between the developed and developing world.

Raj Singh - 31/10/2005
Any democracy will collapse 'cause every country can not face with this problem: the economic wealth and the institutions necessary to produce pluralist, liberal social-market democracy cannot actually be created by most of the world’s societies and economies at this time.

Ursula - 31/10/2005
Technology enables citizens to use another form of participation, which is absolutely great. Not only: the technological flexibility of internet makes possible public debates and interactions. I think it's amazing the idea that national issues can be localised and discussed more intimately. But i think that the most significant achievement in e–government has been the possibility to citizens to obtein information.

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