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> If we can bank online, why can't we vote online? If someone breaks in to your online bank account, they can steal some money - at best it's insured and you l
by imron 9y ago
> If we can bank online, why can't we vote online?
If someone breaks in to your online bank account, they can steal some money - at best it's insured and you lose nothing, at worst a single person's life savings are gone.
Now apply that to online voting. If it was in any way hacked or compromised it would throw the country in to turmoil - possibly even civil war.
The stakes are far greater for elections vs banking, so more caution is needed.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>If someone breaks in to your online bank account, they can steal some money - at best it's insured and you lose nothing, at worst a single person's life savings are gone. You're framing this completely wrong. Hackers have the ability to break into much more than just "a single person's life savings".