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oulipo2 5 hours ago

Totally agree, gov pages should be widely accessible. Also gov services should NEVER mandate internet access. There should always be a way for tech-illiterate people to ask someone, and fill their forms

alok-g 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>> There should always be a way for tech-illiterate people to ask someone, and fill their forms

Isn't that more open to fraud and abuse though by the "someone" whether that is a gov employee or otherwise.

oulipo2 an hour ago | parent [-]

If it's a government employee (as it should), it shouldn't be open to fraud and abuse, no. There should be a trail of what happened

alok-g an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes, there 'should' be a trail. And there's someone and a process to check that trail. And a process to find the issues, correctly so, and fix, and do all that on a timely basis, and reimburse the person for damages, ...

PS: I have actually suffered through some of this, badly so, though in an unrelated setting.

It comes back to which system is more robust/mistake-proof and more practically recoverable.

yawaramin 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

FTA: 'To apply for their services, customers could either use an old ASP form on the website, or follow a manual process.'