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by vowelless 3584 days ago
Which is precisely why paper voting is advantageous. A compromised scalable system can have a much larger impact than a non scalable one.
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There's an interesting analogy to things like WMDs here. Nukes can also have a much larger impact if abused or compromised, but we still built them. I expect eventually we'll have internet voting in place regardless if the benefits outweigh the potential downsides.