Compulsory Voting

[GostHacked]

I don't consider internet security non-existent but I also don't think that this is necessarily what's going to save voting.

First, there is a legitimate concern about knowing who is voting. If you have a married couple and one of them cares about politics and the other doesn't you're going to get one person voting for 2. In some cases you might get a parent voting for adult kids or kids voting for elderly parents. The problem is you don't know for sure who is on the end of the computer.

More to the point, if you can't take a half hour to go to vote, are you really going to spend 10 minutes on the computer to vote?

It's more about accessibility. For some it is difficult to leave the home. Internet voting can mean more people will actually vote. But I trust a paper ballot over a digital one in any case. Computers can and are hacked/attacked on a daily basis. I deal with over 200 clients and we see daily infections and attacks on even our smallest of clients. The Internet has been weaponized before many of you were actively using it on a daily basis.

We saw the Deibold voting machines in the US and how they were hacked and used to swing several elections. Unless you got a good crew of computer forensics experts the hack might be hard to find.

[Smeelious]

All they need to do for electronic voting:

Please enjoy this break from Game three of the ALCS, while Canada votes on their tablets...if not enough Canadians bother to take the 2 minutes to do this, we won't be able to bring the game back. Please enjoying the Jeopardy thinking music in the interim.