I'll agree that this isn't a bombshell. Most people don't vote, the key is knowing who doesn't normally vote and voting via mail in ballot for them. Both political parties have a database of this very information. They also know who they may have cast a ballot for, but the other party doesn't know. It's a game for sure and the only real way to fix it is to vote in person
The only way I could trust online voting is if there were a way for me to verify my own vote after the fact but, even then, it's trivially easy to make a screen say one thing while the vote tallies say another.
I think the biggest vulnerability is the remote voting, which should be just scrapped; if you can't get yourself down to the polling station, why should we care about your opinion?
I'm going to check that link above, but I learned first hand how it's possible and that the mechanism is in place to do it when I ran for office about 12 years ago. My wife told me I should contact the attorney general in our state. I told her how do you think he got there? The fix is in. A few can break through, but they're diluted by connected politicians. I gave up on it after that realization
I'll agree that this isn't a bombshell. Most people don't vote, the key is knowing who doesn't normally vote and voting via mail in ballot for them. Both political parties have a database of this very information. They also know who they may have cast a ballot for, but the other party doesn't know. It's a game for sure and the only real way to fix it is to vote in person
Agreed.
The only way I could trust online voting is if there were a way for me to verify my own vote after the fact but, even then, it's trivially easy to make a screen say one thing while the vote tallies say another.
I think the biggest vulnerability is the remote voting, which should be just scrapped; if you can't get yourself down to the polling station, why should we care about your opinion?
I'm going to check that link above, but I learned first hand how it's possible and that the mechanism is in place to do it when I ran for office about 12 years ago. My wife told me I should contact the attorney general in our state. I told her how do you think he got there? The fix is in. A few can break through, but they're diluted by connected politicians. I gave up on it after that realization