Paul Malpas

Cambridge

Acoustic Consultant

If we can crack e-bankng and e-commerce, we can secure e-voting, I am sure. They should contract e-Bay to run the show!

If anything would make this fail it would be paranoia over fraud, and the convoluted systems that would be necessary to be put in place to satisfy the doubters. Such systems would be more likely to put many users off - witness the process of filing self-assessment tax returns on-line.

There seems to be an inertia amongst local political activists who seem to see the polling station experience as part of the process. This, I think, is a skeweed view from the position of dedicated enthusiasts, whereas the target audience for creating greater participation does not fall into this category. I say bring the national election process to the nation!