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> Like, we can adequately secure banking software.

We really can't. Banking is riddled with fraud, and I say that as someone who works in banking and has designed online banking software. Even with continually ratcheting up security in banking software, use of MFA, encouraging customers to more-secure platforms (Android/iOS), fraud detection (various approaches on the back ends, edge, etc), fraud through online applications is many orders of magnitude higher than fraud in traditional voting systems.

It doesn't matter so much in banking because we can (and do) give customers their money back. We can't fix a broken election.

And that's before we get into the way online voting completely fucks election practises around vote buying, coercion, etc.

I wish people who think they understand computers and are clever would actually make the effort to learn something about either domain before saying stuff like this. It's very disappointing.

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But we've developed processes that allow us to have a functional online banking system. Similar processes might be possible for voting - such as a confirmation and triage period like with ACH transactions, but a month long or something.

For vote buying, seems like all the software has to do is enable faking your vote to 3rd parties effectively. Hard, but seems doable.

Like, yes, it's a very hard problem. But we could stand to do more than scoff and write it off as impossible.