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Absolutely love it when people are able to go against Change for the sake of change™.

It's an alluring proposition, though. The student who is just learning about computers and digital ways of doing things will see the problem of voting as 'solvable' and would be able to list a large number of advantages to an electronic voting system.

In that sense, I don't think anyone advocating electronic voting is trying to 'Change for the sake of change' (compared to, say, a police force trying to replace desktops with iPads). The naivety of it, though, is more the discussion that is being had.

One of the often cited advantage of online voting is that everyone can do it without needing to interrupt their day and thus more people would perhaps vote. That 'advantage' might be revealing itself now as a liability now that we see what effect the lack of face-to-face time has on people, especially in political discussions.

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