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Essentially every computer expert says that using computers for voting is a really bad idea. We do it anyway. Is there any other area where we do something like this?

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Off the top of my head, people regularly ignore environmental scientists on environmental policy and doctors on personal health habits.

It’s like this in many other areas including healthcare access/cost, environmental policy, drug policy, etc.

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