If people really wanted to vote, they would vote.

The subject of electronic voting comes up every single year and while I am all for moving to a more electronic age, I completely disagree with the reasoning that it is the answer to why people dont vote.

In order to accomplish the electronic voting people are asking for, we need a new system built in order to allow voting, calculate votes, track votes and prevent fraud. Even then, what do we do with the members who dont have accessability (Or technical capabilities) to vote online? We cant simply shut them out.

I know its hard for soem to understand but we DO have members that dont use the internet or even own a computer. Sure its a small percentage, but they are still members and deserve a vote. Do we spend the time and effort to determine who those people are and then mail out a seperate ballot for them?

And once all this time and effort is spent to develop this new system, debug the problems, mail out the special ballots, what will we actually gain? 10-20 more votes?

If people dont care, they just dont care. If sticking a stamp on an envelope is the difference in a person choosing to vote or not to vote, then I believe that person never really intended to vote in the first place.

Just my humble opinion.

By they way, the club just received the ANA election ballot by mail. One would think that if anyone knows the benefits of electronic voting it would be a club as large as the ANA. Interesting that they choose to mail ballots........

Doug