Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
Not convinced that in an age where I can buy a plane ticket for thousands of dollars, where we are thinking of sending people to Mars and I can securely communicate with people, in age where Edward Snowden is able to send private documents or whatev, and I have computers on my wrist, pocket and dick, I have to go to a physical place, stand in a queue and draw on a piece of paper to cast a ballot.<p>I've been hearing these complaints for years now, I don't buy it. It's a problem, solve it. Start from here - everyone has a digital signature or certificate or another mumbo-math-jumbo, the system for collecting votes is open source. You have an account at the web service and you can see that your vote has been cast for that candidate that you wished, so who watches the watchers - everybody. Pick two authorities - one counts votes, other distribute keys. One gets a summary of votes only, the other has the mapping of key-person.<p>Sure there are problems. But it sounds to me like laziness and lame excuses.