Who will benefit? The people who vote now tend be older and more conservative. E-voting will increase the voting rate of youth and more progressive voters.
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In other words, there's a snowball's chance in hell of it happening while a bunch of grump old white men hold power in Ottawa.
If the subject of the plebiscite isn't important enough for anyone to spend the money required to attempt a hack, then e-voting is a viable solution.
With e-voting, a hacker could change a few thousand votes in a few swing ridings and no-one would ever know - everything would be within the margin of error we expect from polling, and no recount would ever be possible. Even a postal vote is better since there would be physical artifacts that would have to be destroyed.
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In other words, there's a snowball's chance in hell of it happening while a bunch of grump old white men hold power in Ottawa.
I completely agree with BigCityLib on this one:
If the subject of the plebiscite isn't important enough for anyone to spend the money required to attempt a hack, then e-voting is a viable solution.
With e-voting, a hacker could change a few thousand votes in a few swing ridings and no-one would ever know - everything would be within the margin of error we expect from polling, and no recount would ever be possible. Even a postal vote is better since there would be physical artifacts that would have to be destroyed.
In my opinion, it's not worth the convenience.
Who will benefit? The guys in control of the voting computers. It's not as if there's a paper trail to verify no fraud has occurred.
Isn't the government trying to find out about what we are saying..about them..would you trust them with a ballot?
Good points!
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