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Who benefits? Young progressive voters. Who is harmed? The interests of rich old white bastions of power. There's your answer.
Seems like an easy fix
Verification to avoid duplication is shaky at best
I think we are very, very good at securing communications between devices. I struggle with how to authenticate people properly. With vote-by-mail, I at least have some physical record that I sent a ballot to this person at this address and it was returned and signed. With e-voting, the challenge is how to make sure nobody is disenfranchised while doing it all on the least common denominator devices, any of which is of an unknown security state at any given moment.
I like the idea of easier voter registration and once you register, you should be able to vote anywhere in person or by mail in
I say you should have to show three forms of identification and everyone in the state should have to travel to a single voting station located in the neighborhood most densely populated by rich people. Also, you should have to take an academic aptitude test which should be completed and verified at least six months ahead of time. And the voting booths should only be open for a single hour.
If it's only open for an hour, there will be a line. Need a separate preclearance system to allow frequent voters who pay the government up front priority voting.
I know. I get there's the possibility for fraud but with all the resources we pour into an antiquated system it seems we could easily set up safeguards and protections. I'm not an IT consultant by any means so maybe it's harder than I'm assuming, but we literally use the Internet for almost everything else in life - including financial transactions, military operations, and a whole slew of other confidential transactions.
Hire Silicon Valley for like a day and keep a few on retainer for the aftermath.
The problem is authentication of the users...Obama already tried this by pushing for a Govt ID to access the Internet...all it makes me think of is whether George Orwell time traveled into the future: cbsnews.com/news/obama-eyeing-internet-id-for-americans/
It causes more problems than it solves. If you want to make voting easier: make registration automatic, voting by mail the default, and even make it mandatory. The verification issues of online or even electronic voting are huge.
Just imagine if China or Russia could hack our elections. No, thank you.
Concur, Acc1.
Because Americans are fat enough as it is and need to get their fat asses off of the couch and walk to a voting center to cast their vote because that may be their only form of exercise for the week.