UHFMagazine - 2008-05 - May 2008: enabling voters; privacy forever?

As many of you know, your scribe holds an Italian passport and was born in Italy, while he lives abroad since late 1990s.

I used to be active in politics, and my country never fails to surprise me when it comes to organizing and managing elections.

If you sell insurance or financing contracts, you are assumed to comply with some communication guidelines: how to show the interest rate, etc.

Unfortunately, the same does not apply to political parties: so, I did a small experiment- setting up a website (called DirittoDiVoto.com, "right to vote" in Italian) by building a small card for each political party.

The idea is simple: yes, each party has his own strong "selling", points, but some parameters (e.g. the promises and how they plan to pay for them) should be common.

The site will now go into a next phase: monitoring how the winning block fares vs his own promises, as listed before the election.

But beside choosing how to vote, another issue is voting itself.