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icebraining on June 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy

No, it's not. The paper system allows you to spoil the vote after taking the picture. You can't do that with the digital system.

relix on June 14, 2016 [–]

Which is still coercing your vote. Not to mention normal postal voting is also susceptible to the same problem, and I bet we'd all agree that's much less secure, yet we still use it.

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