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Ask HN: Why can't you vote using an app or website in 2018?

2 pointsby mutaafover 6 years ago
I understand it takes a minute to vote, however, in the digital age why are we not voting via a digital medium?<p>Is it politics, regulations, lack of technology in this space? What would it take to move to using a digital mechanism to vote?

2 comments

detaroover 6 years ago
There&#x27;s no proposal for a digital system that&#x27;s as reliable, secure and transparent as traditional paper-based voting.<p>See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18399145" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18399145</a> from today and many other HN discussions around elections.
java-manover 6 years ago
Or, a better question: how may different ways one can subvert the vote done via app or a web site?<p>A good engineer spends most of his&#x2F;her time thinking not about happy paths but how the thing might fail (and the ways to guard against the failure).