Mobile voting. Is it a good idea?

I think it will still be dangerous... THe internet has become an easy access and I think there will not still be a hundred percent that our votes will be protected. Like, how can they make sure if one person casted only one vote? What if the same person used two simcard to cast in his or her vote? Also there will be a difficulty with verification of identity of the voter. What if someone voted on another person's name or what if someone voted on behalf of someone who has deceased? The counting will indeed be easy, but the accuracy of the results will be in a big doubt.

I don't agree on mobile voting as it is not practical and more likely being abused by those who are in charge of counting the votes. The only advantage maybe is to ease manual counting and people who are lazy to go out to vote can do so in the comfort of their homes while the disadvantage is political candidates who are competing against each other are tempted to use money to influence the outcome of the voting.

I think it would be harder to govern cheating and false votes if they weren't done in person for something like an election. I do think it's a great way to create renvenue for some of the TV shows and competitions offered via premium text services in most countries. I think it's a fast and effective way of placing your vote and there are more people with phones than computers, so i think it could work. The government in my country sends out txt message warnings in the events of bushfires or evacuation in certain areas! Everyone within the affected range located by GPS technology is notified that they have to leave the vacinity.

I think modern technology is a good idea but you also have to take into consideration the country or the people where you are going to use technology, personally for me, if you apply that in my country my answer would be a resounding " Nope and it ain't" at least for the time being until we move on to become more politically mature

I have thought for a while now that this would be a very good idea. Most countries see poor voter turn out when they have elections, and the reason for this is that people just couldn't be bothered to have to travel to a voting station to vote. So using cellphones would be a good way to overcome this! I definitely think it is achievable and I'm sure that this is the way that the future is going - soon we will all be voting on our cellphones!

hi:) That's a great Idea for me, I think that us being able to vote with our phone is a good. Think no more waiting in line for two plus hours to spend a minute at a poll.I wouldn’t have to worry when I get off late that am I gonna make it to vote. I would be able to vote at my room and keep doing mylot:)

The concept sounds no different then the absent T ballets. Redigistered voters currently have two options. Go to an actual poll location, or Absent T where they get a ballet they can fill out at home on their own terms. Mobile voting is nothing more then an eletronic version of this, and would work just as well. Not to say it'll replace the absent T, because while it seems unheard of... not EVERYONE has a mobile device. In a way I'd see it working much faster. It would get us results a lot quicker, becaue it'll reduce the number of ABsent T's that need to be counted and received. Which will be less work for those who have to do it. And, while elections are important, everyone's thinking about money. Money, the root of all things. By intruducing a text messaging option, some of the finical burden is shifted on the person sending and receiving the text. Because they don't have to charge for this, they don't have to pay for it, but the person who'se doing the texting would be responsible for usage charges their provider may provide for Using SMS. I'm sure there's a list of pros and cons going into this new option, but mostly it's fear because it is new. Yes, It's not perfect... it's not fool proof, and is probably in the planning and beta stages right now. Mind you Next year is election year, so they've got a little over a year until this has to be perfected. Mind you voting is done the first Tuesday in November, so they have until then to hammer out the details. As it stands it's only perposed, and may not appear as an option next year... but perhaps in four years from now? Who knows.... I sure don't.

Mobile voting may be done for less serious votes. Like a vote for a tv personality, etc.. but I dont think it would be appropriate during elections because election is a very serious matter. If we vote by mobile phones it is easier to cheat and it wouldn't be accurate because people/candidates could just buy a lot of simcard and make up names so that they can have more votes on the candidates of their choice.

for me i think mobile voting is not advisable to be used in voting because before the data will go to the counting department some other department go first so they can change it,so for me its not good to use mobile voting,prone to cheating rather paper and pencil.

I think it's a good idea, especially because a lot of voting for various award shows and whatnot use that technology now! However, I think because voting for elections is a more "serious" issue, so people worry about maybe spamming texts, or anything that might corrupt the system. Plus, it may be a little difficult if various people didn't follow a certain format, or started texting random things to an assigned number. It seems like a good idea to me, but I bet there are many people that can pick out even the smallest of problems!