Column E-voting over the internet is by common consent a bad idea.
It has certainly had what looks like a very uneven history, with a handful of pilot projects usually leading to fairly stern analysis saying it's not fit to scale. No independent paper trail, no recounts, an immediate susceptibility to wholesale fraud: sticking paper in boxes has all that and more in its favour. Democracy is too precious to risk on such a flaky idea.
That all sounds fine, until you look at the state of non-electronic democracy right now. Tomorrow, the most powerful democratic state in the world goes to vote, and it is a chaotic, corrupt, incomprehensible mess.
The US presidential election is based on ideas dating from before the invention of the telegraph or railways, when communication across the nation was difficult and time-consuming. Fifty-two different states with fifty-two ..
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