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Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea
Tom Scott · Discussed on HN from 2020 to 2026
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- 02election security
- 03tom scott
Tom Scott explains why electronic voting is a bad idea. Elections must be trusted by everyone and attacks on software scale in ways attacks on paper do not, so open source or blockchain fixes do not solve it.
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Elections only count if everybody can believe the results.
“Tom Scott still has the best argument against e-voting IMO [1].”Read the original HN comment
greenduck · 2020-11 · 11 recommenders across 11 months
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