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Just spare a couple minutes of your time to watch this excelent video by Computerphile: Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea [1] [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v

• bo1024 9y ago
  Good summary. The video is mostly about electronic voting machines up but also talks about online voting from home toward the end. The additional problem with online elections, not covered in the video, is loss of anonymity (or deniability).
• Y_Y 9y ago
  I did. I didn't learn very much, as someone who has a casual interest in electronic voting. I think that pretty much everything he said was "this could never work because people would do it wrong". It's an important consideration, but I don't find it an ultimately convincing argument. I think that we can certainly construct an apparatus of trust based on existing ones (like banking and encrypted messaging) that would be sufficient.