The week in your words: not so secret seven

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 31 Oct 2008 at 16:29

We like this idea of attaching the word beta to anything we can't be bothered doing. Imagine it: 'where's dinner, honey?', 'erm, it's in beta.' Or, alternatively, 'have you hoovered the floor like I asked?', 'it's beta cleaned'. The possibilities are endless.

E-voting vetoed for 2009 election

And onto the Government, which this week decided that David Cameron's passing familiarity with technology made e-voting far too risky a proposition, and called a halt to the entire risky plot. On the bright side this means we can look forward to another election in which only those who mistake the polling booth for a loo vote. Happy days.

Amnesia10 thought the decision was probably wise: "The huge problems that have already appeared means it would probably suffer here. There have been complaints in Virginia of votes for Obama showing up as for McCain. I am sure that no party wants the risk of being accused of stealing the election through vote rigging. It would weaken it immensely."

True, but it would also be in power, which would probably soften the blow a bit.

Derrenbomb was also unconvinced: "Electronic voting is fine so long as there's a paper trail to back it up and the source code is not kept secret, which is usually the case with electronic voting - no-one is allowed to look at whether the code running the machines has anything hooky in it."

We admit, we don't know what the word hooky means, but we like it.

See you all next week when hopefully something equally hooky will be happenig.