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More bluntly, the purpose of an election is to convince the loser not to send his supporters out on the street protesting. The problem with e-voting is that it
by jeffrallen 7mo ago
More bluntly, the purpose of an election is to convince the loser not to send his supporters out on the street protesting.
The problem with e-voting is that it gives the losers an infinite number of things to complain about and challenge the election.
- atoav 7mo agoThis is the point. The way you carry out elections need to optimize for not having the loser riot on the streets, nearly all other considerations are secondary: speed, efficiency, etc. It is also interesting which role human psychology plays in this. Trump for example used the late trickeling in of the mail vote to incite the January 6th riots. His followers found it shady that the gote changed in the end.