Barcamp 5 at Singapore
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Hacking the Singapore General Election
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A talk discussing the problem of walkovers in the Singapore election system. With walkovers, people do not get to vote and apathy sets in (has set in for well over 20 years now). This apathy is not good at all for democracy if people do not get to vote at all.
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Hacking the Singapore
General Election
Problem Definition:How To Get People To Participate
How Many Of You Have Votedin A Singapore Election?
Conjecture:When You Don't Participate,
You Abdicate
Why?
Walkovers
Look at www.elections.gov.sg
Idea:1. Since it is unlikely that walkovers
will be abolished, can we have a ONLINE election for those whose
constituencies did not get an opportunity to exercise their rights?
Idea:2. Can we hack a system that uses
social media tools – identi.ca/twitter.com, facebook etc to
do something?
Idea:3. Crowdsourcing for election
deposits
Idea:4. ???
