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How many Nigerian princes have asked for your bank account number via physical mail? How about via email? The internet lowers the barrier to certain forms of a
by ryukafalz 6y ago
How many Nigerian princes have asked for your bank account number via physical mail? How about via email?
The internet lowers the barrier to certain forms of abuse substantially enough that I don't think you can so easily say you won't have made it any worse.
- Spivak 6y agoI mean none because Gmail's spam filters are pretty good these days but I take your point. I'm not at all saying people should be trained to vote via unsolicited email. You would have to ask for digital voting when you register. And you would of course be able to check that your ballot was received through the same online form that already exists for mail-in ballots. Right now you already give election officials your email for mail-in ballots and if there's a problem with your ballot they'll email you! I think we could do a lot better than this when it comes to online voting but as a baseline optionally replacing the transport from physical mail to email I don't think would be the end of the world.