Modernising the voting system
Thursday's General Election highlighted to me just how antiquated and inefficient the voting system is in this country, requiring huge amounts of manpower and paperwork to administer with so much potential for mistakes. It's the 21st century so why are our election results still being determined by people counting marks on pieces of paper? As a computer scientist with a particular interest in databases, this seems an ideal use of such a system to me and having given it some thought, from a technical viewpoint this is actually a very simple problem that can easily be solved with current technology.
