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WARSAW (AFP) - Poland should not adopt online voting because the Internet is the preserve of beer-swilling youths with a penchant for pornography, the former prime minister said on Wednesday.

"I am not enthusiastic about the idea of a youngster sitting at his computer, watching videos and porn, slugging on a beer bottle and voting whenever he feels like it," Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in an interview published -- ironically -- on the website of his conservative Law and Justice party.

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This guy being so prejudice and the worse part he's a hypocrite as he posted comment online.

Uhm, yeah. But all old people think this way? XD

And besides, most modern republics use a manual system of vote counting. You have to go to the polls. Poland would be rather revolutionary if they were to adopt online voting, so it makes sense that people are being cautious.

...suggested that Internet users were too easily swayed by what they read online.

I can't completely agree with that, but I think it is true to some extent. Young people in general are that way. I know that most of the members of YWS are smarter than that though and would do research, but at least in America, a lot of people don't do research into what they have read to see if it is true or not.

So, his whole thing about porn and drinking alcohol isn't true (for America. I can't say anything, but it could be different in Poland?) but he... has a point? *shrugs*

I like his last name.

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...suggested that Internet users were too easily swayed by what they read online.

I know that most of the members of YWS are smarter than that though and would do research, but at least in America, a lot of people don't do research into what they have read to see if it is true or not.

Well, it's really got nothing to do with the internet -- people swallow everything they're fed through mainstream sources as well.

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Hah! You always find awesome news stories Vernon.

There is a reason why he and his twin bro had a bad election last year