Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy

Re:Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy by msdos on Monday June 13, 2016 @08:42PM (#11898966)

The key claim is: there’s no way with any reasonable amount of resources that you can guarantee that the software and hardware are bug-free and that they haven’t been maliciously attacked

The same could be said about other electronic systems that already govern lives, like planes, cars, phones and medical equipment.

And yet life goes on.

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Re:Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy by Raticide on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @12:41AM (#11899823)

But those things do go wrong all the time. Luckily they don't dictate who controls the entire country.

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Re:Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy by vanattab on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @07:28AM (#11901238)

Except half the country is not doing everything possible to bring every plane under their control. With the the other half trying to resit with little regard for the safety of the passengers. Security and transparency is far more important when humans are in conflict.

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