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When pressed, proponents of online/electronic voting invariably add hidden requirements like “it’s the responsibility of each voter to safeguard their voting device and password”. Really? Which part of the Constitution makes the right to vote contingent on the ability to do that?
Or, you’ll be assured that unsolved problems that have been the subject of decades of research are just trivial details that can be easily worked out.
The problem of remote user authentication at scale has literally been the subject of research papers in top-tier security venues for over three decades. It’s a famously unsolved problem in general. You don’t get to pilot-test your new “solution” on our democracy, sorry.
