Everyone is laughing at Ted Nugent for saying "why no lockdowns for COVID-18", but people aren't likewise laughing at tech CEOs for saying "we can do X online but not vote?".
The answer is because a small amount of fraud/mistakes are acceptable for X, but not for voting.
The answer is because a small amount of fraud/mistakes are acceptable for X, but not for voting.
https://twitter.com/jeffiel/status/1381656204955553799
Credit card fraud accounts for like 0.5% of all purchases. Imagine if 0.5% of votes where fraudulent. Uber is full of GPS problems (arriving and getting you to the destination), and drivers routinely game the system to get the most profitable riders.
Moreover, the most important part of the voting system is trust -- trust that the system hasn't been hacked either by foreign hackers or the elites who run/administer it. That's vastly easier to demonstrate with a paper trail than the magic of computers.
In the 2020 US President election, the loser spread conspiracy theories about how election systems were hacked. This was easily debunked in places like Georgia because it had a robust paper trail.
To vote online or via mobile, you first need a political process to change fundamental requirements for voting, like issuing a national ID card in which people are forced to register with the federal government every time they move, and weakening protections of "secret ballot".
Instead of listing all the things we can do via Internet/mobile, let's list all the things we can't do. We can't deliver vaccines via mobile. We can't even schedule vaccine appointments reliably via Internet/mobile.
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