Online Voting - Good Idea or Not?

Last week I challenged my 7th grade students to write a persuasive essay convincing the reader that online voting was, or was not, a good idea. This was challenging because I was expecting 3 just one class period. This means students only had about 30 minutes to research the topic, organize their ideas, and complete a full essay. There wasn't time for pre-writing or proofreading.

paragraphs full of persuasive writing, in

The results were spectacular.

Between now and next Tuesday (voting day), I will be highlighting these essays on this blog!

Online Voting - Sophia

Do you think the United States should do online voting? Well my answer is no we should not do online voting because of the fact that there are some talented hackers in our world who can easily change the votes. Like how some hackers how took down a chunk of our internet. Also there could be people who vote more than once using different systems or using a  different email.

Security experts say that there is not enough protection for any of the ballots transmitted over the internet. Lots a people say the this will be a recipe for chaos. Online voting could be good but there is just not enough protection. It will take them a few years before they figure out a good protection plan.

So I don’t want online voting,it will just cause big arguments between people. Again there is just not enough protection for online voting. Come join the fight for no online voting.