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The problem is a cultural one, not a technical one.

What makes you think this community of people who work for the very companies that are being gagged, backdoored, surveilled and bribed are the ones who are going to fix it with a magic voting program? This community can't even come to a consensus to admit that Dropbox quite obviously has the hands of the Powers That Be rammed firmly into its asshole now (I apologize - maybe Condoleezza Rice had a revelation after advocating for the invasion of Iraq on false premises, and now deeply cares about the security of the world's porn backups).

Besides, I'd argue the system we have now is better, because it's hard to forge votes when you have hundreds of people across many municipalities counting votes and thinking for themselves. If you implement a national voting system in software, it would be much easier to corrupt by virtue of being centralized.



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