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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by yurisagalov on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:57PM (#11716839)
Online voting (the kind you could do in the comfort of your own home) suffers from manipulation in the more traditional form: I sit at your house with a baseball bat and make sure you vote for my candidate of choice. Voting at a voting booth prevents that.

I'm generally in favor of overhauling the voting system with technology (especially open source technology that can be publicly validated), but I think there are still benefits to having people vote in a supervised public space making sure people can vote anonymously and safely

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by wl on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:59PM (#11716864)
Vote by mail suffers from the baseball bat problem, yet it's not uncommon in the US.
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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by yurisagalov on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:01PM (#11716882)
You're right. I was actually just about to edit my post to comment on the fact that absentee ballots still suffer that problem, so perhaps my thoughts here are invalid.
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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by labster on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:27PM (#11717127)
However, vote by mail is more likely to suffer from the peanut butter & jelly problem, which is getting food smudged on the ballots while filling them out at the dinner table.
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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by choward on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:03PM (#11718339)
Or I come over to your house and tell you I'll give you $10 to vote for my candidate. If you had to go to a voting booth it might not be worth the effort.
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