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

2FA?

I'd assumed that from the start.

If fraud was comitted on a significant scale, you could catch it doing that.

Or at least know it happened

lol that just seems counter prodictive though, i mean teh goal of E-voting would be to make it easy and simple for every citizen to vote

Maybe. It's hard to say.

Paper seems simple enough.

ideally when we have the technology if its even possible you wouldnt need that sort of verification

I will say that if you require everyone to have a phone the politicos will immediately go up in arms about poor people not being represented. Or old people.

The issue isnt really paper vs digital, the issue is that traditional voting requires people to show up at a booth and wait in line

or rural communities

And alot of people, especially for more local elections

Just... Dont

People don't go to vote because of convenience.

i mean ive been involved in a local election and that was a hassle enough in terms of recounting and having the proper officials present and all that shit

E-voting would just exponentiate all those problems imp

*imo

In the US the turnout is something like 60ish% for presidential, 40ish% for midterms

And significantly lower for things like mayoral elections

Alot of that for local elections is that people just don't think much is at stake.

i thought it was more like 30%

fo rpresidential