If so, I wonder why this hasn’t been done yet? I read threads here and elsewhere debating the “turn-out” among all demographics, and it seems like the ability to avoid driving to the polling place, standing in line**, interacting with people in general, etc., would bump the turn-out from (50%ish?) to somewhere in the low 90%'s?
I suppose the argument against it would be the possibility of “voter fraud” (i.e. one person voting dozens of times) but couldn’t it be tied to a SS#, or a state/Drivers License #, to avoid duplication?
**this spoken by someone who has never voted before, so I’m not sure what to expect, come November… and if you CAN vote online, then I hope this thread gets closed and just melts into purgatory
So many info security issues they’d drive you batty. Until there’s absolutely secure public networking, not gonna happen.
In other words, never gonna happen, at least not in our lifetimes.
That’s it. Two questions: Is there any Internet system that absolutely cannot be hacked? Would there be any more tempting a target?
Yeah, touche’ on that I guess… I’m not one who thinks all that much about “internet security” / hacking (call it naive, or whatever you choose), but I guess that makes more sense than anything I can think of.
We already have so many information security issues they’d drive you batty in paper balloting. It doesn’t seem to bother folks much.
Except that paper isn’t vulnerable to some guy sitting at a laptop in Moscow or Beijing.