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Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

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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  1. 1e-voting
  2. 2election security
  3. 3tom scott

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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].”
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