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Comment by TazeTSchnitzel

Estonia's e-voting system has well-known flaws: http://estoniaevoting.org/

Voting requires authentication, verifiability and anonymity.

Online electronic voting only allows you to pick two.

They may be lo-fi, but paper ballots work very well here, and engineering a secure Internet voting system which maintains these attributes is a difficult problem.

The people who understand computer security and voting systems well will never design an Internet voting system, because they know it can't be safe. Unfortunately, that means we're left with systems deployed by those who don't understand these well.

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