[miheermunjal]

this just re-stresses the point to COMPETITION in the electronic voting space. If you had a monopoly over the systems, what encouragement would you have to upgrade them? There are all sorts of ways to innovate "e-voting", and all of them are objectively improved over the current US methods

[cyborgx7]

Yap, let's introduce the "invisible hand of the free market" into the voting system. As we have all experienced, that always leads to the safest and most ethical outcome.

[lurker456]

especially when the customer differs from the users

[Klathmon]

What are some of the benefits of e-voting that make up for the possible shortcomings?

From my perspective, e-voting is more difficult for the blind/disabled, more difficult to audit and check (you'd need to be a programmer that is well versed in cryptography to even begin to audit a codebase), much harder to verify/validate your own vote was even cast, much less reliable, and overall is confusing and harder to use.

The only benefit I can see is making it easier to vote for those working or who aren't able to get to a precinct. But that's a problem I'd much rather have solved by making it a mandatory holiday and providing state-paid-for transportation on election days.

[cr1895]

>There are all sorts of ways to innovate "e-voting", and all of them are objectively improved over the current US methods

Can you expand on the objective improvements?