Earth to Samsung: Politics R Scrwd Enuff K? Thx!

April 23, 2008 in Industry News, Samsung

Samsung has just reported the findings of a survey asking Americans about the prospect of voting for their next President of the United States via Text Message. To put it nicely… we think their results are…. well… stupid.

Lets clear something up. In our lazy, technology dependent society everybody is going to opt for the easier method of getting things done. If you asked anyone age 18 to 50 if they would rather go to the grocery store, buy sandwich ingredients, drive home, make a sandwich and then eat it or press a button on the Jetson’s food maker and have the same thing pop out… WHAT do you think they would say? The small percentage of people opting not to use text message in this survey likely fit into the following groups:

  • Technological Fogies who don’t know what “text messages” mean and who think any form of communication online (forums, AIM, Chatrooms, etc…) is all called “e-mailing”.
  • Teens who talked/typed too much to their infatuation of the week, ran up the monthly bill to $750, got banned from using their cell phone and concluded, “I can’t vote with TXT because my stupid mother who I hate took my phone away and now it is the end of the world! This is SO emotional abuse this isn’t fair argh I HATE YOU MOM!”
  • SANE people who realize that the system we currently have is corrupt and transferring it to an electronic format, where the flow of information is completely controlled by Fortune 100 companies, would only further perpetuate corruption. WE ARE NOT READY FOR THIS TECHNOLOGY.

So in light of these findings, we thank you Samsung for trying to be ahead of your time. But please… please… we have enough problems as it is. Although TXT voting might give those digging Ron Paul fanatics a way to game the system against the corporate fraud ring?

Hmmm… this could give “Partisan Hackery” a completely new meaning.

Here are the “meaty” parts of the survey results:

A survey by Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) suggests that many teens and their parents across the U.S. would rather vote by text message on their cell phones in the next election rather than go to the polls. BYE-BYE POLLS

  • More than six in ten (61%a) of respondents of legal voting age, age 18 and older, would be open to voting by text.
  • Eight in ten (80%) teens, ages 13-17, say that if they were allowed to vote in this year’s Presidential election, they’d do it by text message instead of going to the polls.

BIPARTISAN SUPPORT

  • More than half of all Democrats, Republicans and Independents surveyed say that if allowed, they’d text in their Presidential vote.

The survey, commissioned by Samsung Mobile, was conducted by Kelton Research and included 300 American teens ages 13 – 19 and 500 American parents with children ages 13 – 19.

[Via BusinessWire]

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