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Combined with early voting, and you could have a political event with tens of thousands who all vote a month early online in front of each other, the crowd pres
by DanielBMarkham 10y ago
Combined with early voting, and you could have a political event with tens of thousands who all vote a month early online in front of each other, the crowd pressure adding to the emotional fervor.
I can't imagine elections being any more screwed up, even including Jim Crow. Jim Crow has nothing on this.
But I'm still of the opinion that anything electronic is by nature untrustworthy. Just ask Microsoft, who for more than a decade or more has tried to lock down their O/S.
I know how the theory works. But that's just a theory regarding abstract concepts. Real voting doesn't work like that. At all. It's much more than the theory describes.
And if we get past all of that? Then we can start talking about how nobody who founded the U.S. wanted a democracy. Democracies are inherently extremely dangerous.
It's just a terrible idea masquerading as some cool new thing tech can do.