Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jcoffland 2513 days ago
> The major problem with online voting is that people can be coerced into voting against their wishes

The main problem is guaranteeing one vote per eligible voter.

Coercion is a related but smaller problem. It's much harder to coerce most of the people most of the time than it is to stuff the ballot.

1 comments

Worth mentioning that ballot stuffing is a problem with the people counting the votes/running the polls, not the voters. So it would be more accurate to say that the problem is preventing the entity that organizes the vote from accessing discrete votes.