Ask HN: Why can't you vote using an app or website in 2018?

Posted by mutaaf on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @02:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I understand it takes a minute to vote, however, in the digital age why are we not voting via a digital medium?

Is it politics, regulations, lack of technology in this space? What would it take to move to using a digital mechanism to vote?

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't you vote using an app or website in 2018? by detaro on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @02:56PM (#18401855)

There's no proposal for a digital system that's as reliable, secure and transparent as traditional paper-based voting.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18399145 from today and many other HN discussions around elections.

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't you vote using an app or website in 2018? by java-man on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:28PM (#18402110)

Or, a better question: how may different ways one can subvert the vote done via app or a web site?

A good engineer spends most of his/her time thinking not about happy paths but how the thing might fail (and the ways to guard against the failure).

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