From the Orient

I got my postal voting form in the post this morning, but the UK is starting e-voting trials this year.

These are local council elections rather than the big _presidential_ elections where Mr. Blair got his mandate for dictatorship. Arguably, they are more important because who gets onto your local council will affect your day to day life regarding what it is like to live in your town or village. For instance, the Liberal Democrat candidate for my local council has promised funds for increased road safety measures on a road I cross every day and where an 18 year old boy from my road crash his car and died last year. In contrast, the Conservative candidate has promised tax cuts (which he doesn’t really have the power to deliver anyway).

Unsuprisingly, local elections get an even worse turn out than a general election, and that is bad enough. Seen as I had to leave work early to vote last time, trials like e-voting and postal voting and only help getting more people to vote.

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