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This Is Why Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea Right Now

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The system of democracy is built on the rather more humble system of voting. And voting is built on the two fundamentals of anonymity and trust. This video explains why, right now, digital voting doesn’t provide over of those two things well enough.

Tom Scott gives a pretty great run down here of the ways that electronic voting can fail us—and why, for now, paper might be our best bet. [Computerphile]

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