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by coffinbirth 95 days ago
Drawing two crosses on a piece of paper every couple of years has really nothing to do with democracy. Democracy is when one can vote on all topics on any level (local village, town, district, county, state, ...) using the computer at home. This is possible to implement using the algorithms/data structures available today. We actually do basically everything online today - except voting.

For instance, such a system would be immune to corruption. That's one of the major reasons such a system will likely never appear.
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riffraff 95 days ago
> For instance, such a system would be immune to corruption

OTOH, it enables vote buying and intimidation at scale: you vote from home in exchange for 5€/not being beat up and have to film yourself doing it, so that the local bad guy gets authorized to bulldoze the local nature reserve.

Vote buying and intimidation already exist, but proving it is harder, all remote voting on everything would just make it more convenient.

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