And if there's anything of value at stake, interested parties WILL find a way to compromise the process.

At the very least, in person voting is a small barrier to some forms of manipulation.

yeah indeed

You could make a similar argument for voting by mail, but that's got a bit more control involved because ballots are usually mailed by the sec. of state, which helps limit potential abuse.

Voting online is a horrible idea

Voting by mail is even worse

I suggest sticking to electronic ballot machines

They have the least chance of being compromised

And can be physically guarded

Personally, I think most US elections are too easy to vote in already. And there are districts where the number of registered votes exceeds the number of residents already.

One proposal I've seen is to mandate that electronic voting machines require physical tickets as a record.

Which seems like a good idea to me.

And when the potential to manipulate elections presents itself, people will manipulate them. Heck, 4Chan manipulates online polls just because it can.

The benefits are quite good for voting online. But yes, worries of compromise are pretty major.

Also, also you really shouldnt conflate 'online polls'

with the security likely involved in a election.

You'd probably have to sign in with a government account, or social security number

It wouldnt be 'easy' to compromise

But its more plausible for mass fraud to happen that way then when voting with ballots

Think about how many dead people will be voting

SSN would be very easy to compromise, IMO. In the US we don't have government IDs beyond that either.

I've seen government security. I wouldn't trust it to get a ballot to everyone who needs it and still be robust enough to not be compromised by some intelligence service somewhere.

If voting was done online

Offense > defense.

"Oh no the dead people"
Sure it might happen more, but its quite rare as is.

Also

It's rare because we don't vote online ya fag

The most secure way i can think of, having novice knowledge of these sorts of things

Is to hand out physical items (Some kind of card) every year

To every citizen

With a very long string of numbers on it or something

It's not as rare as you think.

That they have to input when voting

Not gonna work

Why not?

It's cards

So?

You'd have to do something better.

Common sense

No one would actually care

If it's cards you could easily start by intercepting the cards or reverse engineering the numbers.

And you can fuck with the numbers