Maybe. But what's the difference between that and electronic voting machines?

The fact they're networked?

You dont have to go anywhere, sit in a long line.
Also this isnt a voting machine

This would be a website or some such

haha just the fact its networked seems liek a bad idea

That's the main concern really

Lots of way to abuse a site.

Physical machines are enough

I wouldn't trust online

If they're connected over the normal internet, that's an entry point. Otherwise there's no obvious advantage to an e-voting booth. You'd still have to show up in person.

electronics as well.

If somebody can manage to break into the website you're in trouble obviously.

E voting isn't a good idea, period

You dismiss it without giving it much thought though.

Unless it's a utopia where no one wants to fuck over the elections

I'm imagining the electoral system will still be in place?

Presumably.

I would trust E voting for groups that are fundamentally online and have low stakes. Say, if Tim wanted to have a poll on this server to decide a topic for a future video or something.

But when things start to really matter, when intelligence services get interested...sometimes backwards is better.

Even if you aren't a hostile power, imagine the potential for a couple rogue employees at Google to manipulate elections in their favor to get a favorable regulatory environment and make a profit.

physical can be observed by several actors in its processing. Digital can't.

And a company like Google (or whomever is making the website) would certainly have the capapbilty

Digital... Actually kind of can.

It's not as easy mind you.

You trace digital, but it's somewhat imperfect. It's impractical to assume you'd be able to verify 300mil votes.

yeah thats assuming everyone would vote

but you would have to

I dunno about that, you said verify

in terms of building a stable network infastructure

Sure. But suppose it's 100mil. That's still alot.

And verifying it wouldnt be altogether that hard really.

I think we need to distinguish verify and "verify"

I mean, ensuring the entire path hasn't been tampered with.

Verify implies that you go ask them/confirm it somehow

that some huawei switch somewhere hasn't had a diversion through China.

No because you have to see if it's valid at the voting hardware, its software, the network, the server, etc.

That someone hasn't altered the hashes and stamps and rerouted things.

Not "verify" in the sense that you're checking who's on the record. That's conceptually simple, hard in practice.

No no

I mean literally

Asking somebody

IE; Sending them a text asking if they voted