The low turnout in municipal elections has revived the debate on electronic voting. To vote is above all to withdraw from the world, to isolate oneself in order to exercise one’s democratic right. My vote only concerns me, of course, but it is also and above all to leave home, to rub shoulders with reality, with bad weather, with poorly maintained roads, it is to note that the roof of the school where one vote leaks, that the gymnasium is dilapidated and that parking is scarce. It is to embrace the fullness of the daily problems of our city, its beauty and its ugliness.
Electronic voting would bring us back to this famous withdrawal into oneself where the individual disconnected from the social fabric thinks that he is acting with ” like ”And where each click would be equivalent to a virtual mobilization. The pandemic has made us understand that the virtual has its limits and that electronic voting, however attractive it may be at first glance, would only engender greater casualness. Citizenship is not electronic, it is above all a reflection and a process. Saving it in the near future would not legitimize the vote on the pretext that it would be exercised in the comfort of our living room.
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