Legislating through the internet

[Blahface]

A lot of states in the US only have part time legislatures and the representatives usually have other full time jobs. I'm wondering in this situation if there is any reason to not just do everything online. They can have debates online and craft bills in a somewhat wiki like fashion in full view of the public. It can also be done completely in their spare time and they wouldn't need to have the 30 day sessions that would interfere with their full time job.

Does this make sense for a part time legislature? Also, what about a full time legislature or the federal legislature? What would be the downsides?

 

[Keith&Co.]

Well, the downside is how the government tends to really screw things up with computers.

My wife teaches English in High School, she has kids trying to hand stuff in through the school's Google account. Stuff goes missing, stuff shows up late, stuff shows up altered... Or students hack other student's accounts and the Track Changes shows that Tommy wrote 'tommy si a idoit' five hundred times...