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Voting fraud might occur in any way, but I think it's quite obvious that from this point of view voting booths are better than mail voting.

> Only the last vote counts.

Is it always like this? I could also go at someone's place one minute before the voting closes.

Voting at the voting booth is still more secure.

In person voting at the voting booth is without any doubt more secure. For something so important like voting I would only use the most secure option.

I live in a country with only voting at the voting booth and I am perfectly happy with it!

In addition to this, the fact that you are not aware of voting fraud does not mean it does not happen. That's why it's important to care about potential voting fraud.

The electronic ID is a great idea for everything except for voting.

I can easily go to someone's place, make sure he votes for my candidate and give him 10$. A lot of people with low interest in politics would sell their vote, I suppose.

Polling booths are still safer than all other options (mail voting, electronic voting, etc...)

There are a couple of services I would love to use, but I have a strict no-subscription policy. It just gives me bad vibes, I would rather pay 24 months upfront and have the full application/service.

Of course this does not matter, because the MBAs in charge showed in a PowerPoint presentation that the subscription model will squeeze 11.1% more money for customers, mostly from people who forget to unsubscribe.

> The new plan has some limitations. While Germany’s 9-euro ($9) passes cover all public transit except faster train services, Spain will restrict itself to regional and suburban rail services, which are not as extensive as they are in Germany. While it might be technically possible to travel across Spain using only regional trains, it would not necessarily be easy because the slower network is quite patchy.

To be honest the German situation is not so different from the Spanish one.

Going from Munich to Berlin with the 9-euro ticket requires from 3 to 6 changes, and from 10 to 15 hours.

I think there should be! And I welcome any technology enabling it!

There are fully anonymous cryptocurrencies. Also, in a public ledger, an address is not directly associated to a person.

The vast majority of human activities have a carbon footprint.

I would rather give up Facebook and all other social (which in my opinion add no value to society) rather than cryptocurrencies (which are instrumental to the right of privately transacting online, which I deem very important).

This obsession over the carbon footprint of cryptocurrencies is ideological and, ultimately, wrong.

Still very rough years for Russia. Still as tone deaf as observing that since grandma has suddenly died the ecological footprint of the family greatly improved.

Must be the most tone deaf article I read in a while. Lots of people were starving in Russia in the ‘90s, for sure malnourished or dead people emit less carbon.

Sure, sure, but I find difficult to believe that an industrial superpower such as Germany can't find a solution in a couple of months.

The the usual politicians' way of speaking. If there was the political will of having the nuclear power plants works, they would go and find the spare parts in a second. There's no political will (thank you Greens!) so they make up excuses.

> Contracts have been terminated, replacement parts with long lead times haven't been ordered, maintenance windows have been shifted in anticipation of the shutdown.

Sounds like a long list of lame excuses.

> Another ban was instituted in 1869.

That's more than 150 years ago. Matches pretty much my definition of consistency.

Even before, there might have been some doctrinal adjustments, but abortion was condemned by many Fathers of the Church, in the very early centuries.