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The same argument applies to the internet at large. Shall we move back to filing cabinets because that makes data leaks more difficult?

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?

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Electronic banking works prescicely because it isn't a secret semi-anonymous blockchain thing. If credit card payments end up in the wrong account, someone notices. If an electronic voting system assigns votes to the wrong candidate, who notices?

There are next to no stakes with electronic banking compared to voting. Money is a totally different prospect to rigging an election.

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

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