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> By the way, for the "impossible to secure" argument against online-voting, who cares if it gets hacked? One of the biggest problems with online voting is coe
by cvwright 12y ago
> By the way, for the "impossible to secure" argument against online-voting, who cares if it gets hacked?
One of the biggest problems with online voting is coercion. If a bad guy can stand over you and watch you vote, he doesn't need to hack the computers. He just needs to threaten to hurt you (or your friends, family, etc).
- dm2 12y agoWho are the bad guys that are intimidating online voters? Family? Friends? Better to make a halfway informed decision from the recommendations of the social groups you are a part of than just guessing because you favor a particular side (republican or democrat) which is unfortunately how most of America votes (my speculation). Employers wouldn't try to coerce employees, they would be fined too heavily. There are just not enough "bad guys" to make a dent in the actual results of online voting, or am I missing something? You could have a regulatory agency to oversee nursing homes to prevent fraud there, that's a relatively easy problem to solve. I don't necessarily mean that vote choices would be identifiable publicly, but there would be a way to identify that all votes are associated with a real person and a way for people to ensure that their vote is correct and being counted in the total.