Collegiate Times

I do not know about the rest of the Hokie Nation, but snail mail is just used to send out those holiday cards.  There is even a deadline to apply for absentee voting and between the night we cannot remember on Tom's Creek to the completion of an essay the hour before it needs to be submitted on Blackboard, the truth lies in all this!  Our generation is dealing with a voting method that cramps the way we live.  It goes against all that we go through and the little actual time that we have to do it in.

Wake up, Washington!  In our world today, to get our generation to vote -- the vote that really is the most important because we are the individuals who will deal with the wrath our politicians make longer than any other generation has to deal with, just because we are younger -- change needs to come in how we cast our vote.  There is no reason that we cannot vote online with a personal account that we set up that is monitored by the Electoral Board of each state.  All citizens who vote have a social security number and other information that is personal and individually unique, such as birth date and permanent address, that we should just be able to wake up in our PJs and vote right then and there on our computer, cell phone, PDA, or iPod Touch with that information and cast our vote, our voice in the future.  It is the online ballot that can be filled out anywhere.  

Of course the traditional, archaic method does not have to go away, but it goes along with our multitasking lifestyle to have voting online where a system verifies all our information against a database and allows us to just cast our vote once because it is quick and easy.

This is what we need. This is the way our generation wants to cast our vote and voice to the future of our leaders on the local, state and federal levels.  No more with the lack of an online system.  We are a generation that cares but is caught up with life's many tasks that we need a voting system that flows with our life, not against it.  

How far could someone get on Prices Fork Road with going in the wrong direction, against traffic?  Of course, not very far -- only a few would actually be able to do it.  This is how I look at the voting process today.  It is too difficult and cumbersome for our generation.  We need a system where we are flowing with traffic -- vote online.

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