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Computerized voting from home is fraught with perils.
1) - how reliable is it?
2) - is your vote
really secret?
3) - how would you conduct recounts (if necessary)?
4) - can the system be hacked?
Until you can guarantee a truly secret and reliable voting platform free from meddling and fraud, and with a secure mechanism to detect such fraud (that will inevitably occur) - i.e. a system for recounts, then I think I will stick with a paper ballot.
No sitting government ever wants to give up power. There will always be persons interested in power who will employ whatever mechanisms possible to retain power, despite the consequences. A few lines of computer code added into the voting algorithm may be damned difficult to detect, especially if it autodestructs right after the balloting is complete. How would we ever be able to guarantee a fair election if the only thing we have to go on is a potentially hacked computer system.
Even with the current system, the Russians were able to create quite a bit of chaos for the Americans. Without paper ballots and the option of a judicial recount, then everything goes out the window........
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