1) Easily the best argument against online voting, but then again how many who CBA to vote now will care to vote online? Research is needed..
2) One simple counter to most exploitation.. after a vote, all participants are given a unique identifying number, when the tally is done a complete list of all votes along with their UID numbers are released. Anyone can compile the list themselves to verify the results, and anyone can double check their vote with their unique number.
Enough people will check their ID to make it impossible to alter a significant amount of legitimate votes unnoticed. Still won't solve everything of course, ID theft would be an issue, but there are already plenty of ways to counter that..
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1) Easily the best argument against online voting, but then again how many who CBA to vote now will care to vote online? Research is needed..
2) One simple counter to most exploitation.. after a vote, all participants are given a unique identifying number, when the tally is done a complete list of all votes along with their UID numbers are released. Anyone can compile the list themselves to verify the results, and anyone can double check their vote with their unique number.
Enough people will check their ID to make it impossible to alter a significant amount of legitimate votes unnoticed. Still won't solve everything of course, ID theft would be an issue, but there are already plenty of ways to counter that..