Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The democratic divide (12 Mar 2005) Remote Internet voting has been proposed as a solution to low voter turnout. It is tempting to see the use of Internet technology by a large segment of the population as a quick fix for making the voting process more accessible to a larger number of people. This argument, however, demonstrates a disconnect with the reality of Internet use; that is, that it happens in a place. Internet use is not an ethereal, boundary–less activity, it is situated in a spatial/geographic context. Reviewing this geographic context using Geographic Information System technology can reveal the serious limitations of a "point and click" solution to improving political participation. Article URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/birdsall/index.html Read 136 more articles from First Monday sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Usability of U.S. Presidential Candidate Blogs: Why It Matters     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy