Most people don't care enough to deeply understand complex policy issues, and shouldn't have to. Reading re-tweeted newspaper headlines isn't sufficient to make long term decisions that will affect millions of people. That's why we hire professionals that we trust to decide for us.

The problems with remote voting are authentication and coercion. How would we know that it's really you casting your vote, and that someone isn't physically forcing you to vote in a certain way?

Government and voting are going to change at some point in the future. But probably not in the near future.