HAS the Skipper completely lost the plot saying that online computer voting is the way forward?

How can he make that statement, where there are so many people without computers, and would not be able to participate, and that this type of voting is subject to vote rigging and also people voting on local issues that do not really concern them, and could swing a vote drastically, one way or the other.

Take for example the recent poll on the Falmouth recreation ground. This issue, in my opinion, should be for Falmouth residents only to decide what should happen to their recreation ground in their town. The Packet covers Penryn, Budock, Mabe, Mawnan Smith, Mylor and other outlying villages, not forgetting the other areas served by the Packet, Camborne-Redruth, Helston and Truro, and further afield, which can also be accessed online, and then clicking on the Falmouth news, which would take them to the recreation ground poll. So here we have the possibility of thousands of Packet readers from other areas making a significant difference to the poll outcome. I wonder how many of the votes were registered just from Falmouth and that it was one vote per computer, as the system was set up to do? This poll should be taken with a "pinch of salt" unless proved otherwise.

F L Hooper, Packsaddle, Penryn