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by Spivak 541 days ago
Even when you use the digital voting machines it spits out a paper ballot that you deposit into the ballot box so the country already agrees with you.

It's not security vs convenience it's security vs turnout. Our turnout is embarrassingly low, especially on non-presidential election years, we should be expending voting access to methods that have even less friction. If we can conduct banking via an app or website we can vote via an app or website too. We can start talking about reigning it in once we don't have a third of the country not voting.

You deal with the abusive spouse problem by letting an in-person vote override the mail-in ballot while everyone else gets an easy way to vote.

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Turnout is also a problem, but one needs to ensure that knowledge of non-participation doesn't become proxy votes cast by people In The Know.

Rest assured: any workable angle you can think of an many you have not have already been employed to cheat elections.

This is not a partisan dig; rather, simple reality.