[dovetailcode]

Why is online voting needed? As technologists we are sometimes suggesting and using technology to solve problems where technology creates more problems than it solves. If voting systems are online, they can be corrupted/hacked en masse. If it is paper, the corruption/hacking is much more logistically harder to accomplish.

Take the US presidential election as an example. Voting happens on the first Tuesday in November and the winner takes office on Jan 20th. That is over 2 months elapsed time. We don't need to know the winner on election night. Even if it takes 3 weeks to get accurate counts in a close race, there is still plenty of time for transition.

[chefkoch]

> We don't need to know the winner on election night.

Other contries count the paper votes in one night, why shouldn't the US manage to.

/edit: i don't really see the need for only voting if you only vote every other year.

[CM30]

There's no real need here, this is just for fun. It's just a hypothetical question about how you would make online voting secure if you had to build it.

[maceurt]

The voter turnout for the average presidential election is < 50%. A lot of that is because people do not have ways to get to the polling stations.

[dovetailcode]

It really should just be a national holiday. I think I read one of the states decided to get rid of Columbus day and have a holiday on election day.

[chefkoch]

This can be fixed with early voting and absentee ballots.

No need for online voting.

[maceurt]

It hasn't been fixed though, and we have early voting and absentee ballots. I mean, if we really wanted to fix it we could without using online voting, but that is just one positive upside of online voting is higher voter turnout.