Electronic voting is a terrible idea.
Attacks on paper & pen ballot systems are much, much harder to scale.
Here's Tom Scott with a great explanation of the basics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
Attacks on paper & pen ballot systems are much, much harder to scale.
Here's Tom Scott with a great explanation of the basics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
As it turns out, you can just impose austerity.
I'm sure that at some point we'll crack the electronic voting nut. But yeah: it's scary and the stakes are high. Then again, we've fixed electronic banking and that runs pretty nicely without many problems -- right?
The Trump campaign did some extremely shady things with Wikileaks and the GRU, can you imagine if he was now leading the US through COVID after the Russians were able to compromise the voting system? The constitution does not have a mechanism to deal with it, as far as I can see.
What's the point when paper works already and is almost impossible to scale. Voting is easy