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Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

Tom Scott

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What this video covers

Tom Scott explains why electronic voting is a bad idea. Elections must be trusted by everyone and attacks on software scale in ways attacks on paper do not, so open source or blockchain fixes do not solve it.

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HN treats it as the go-to layperson-friendly argument against e-voting and links it in nearly every voting-technology thread.

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