> If I'm looking at a congressman's voting history, is there a real benefit to that data being transmitted via an https session vs. http? Yes. Say you're a fa

> If I'm looking at a congressman's voting history, is there a real benefit to that data being transmitted via an https session vs. http? Yes. Say you're a fan of Party A, and you'd like to find out whether your congressman voted the way that you like on some issue. Wouldn't it be a shame if your ISP was a fan of Party B, and tweaked the page in-flight to show you the voting results that you were hoping for, instead of what really happened? Or if some other organization found a way to inject some JS into the page to do that? For that matter, maybe Party A did it because they wanted hide a vote he had to make that they know might anger his supporters, but they'd rather have another Party A guy in Congress, even if he isn't perfect, than risk losing the seat to Party B. Think all of that is paranoid nonsense? Well, pretty equivalent accusations have been thrown around in this election cycle by both sides, many by very mainstream organizations. I don't know that anything like this has happened, but it doesn't seem quite so crazy these days to say that it very well could.