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I'm immediately mistrustful of anyone who wants to electronic-ify our elections. No sensible person with even a cursory knowledge of how bad the state of computer security is could recommend this.

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Why not? You just need to have a cursory knowledge of how little elections and security actually matter. We already use computers to manage our finances, social lives, and health. If they get hacked they get hacked. Life goes on.

That's a frighteningly cavalier attitude about the integrity of elections.

I think it's a realistic one. Is the integrity of your votes more important to you than your bank account? Or your medical history? It's not to me.

If your prevailing attitude is that all of society has already failed, then I suppose, no, the integrity elections are not important.

But that's a disturbingly cynical outlook, and if the general attitude of the whole populace was as such, there must be something awful at play.

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