21st November 2014, 10:31 PM
Someone pointed out one problem with internet voting. Poll booths, if nothing else, are a natural check on people too drunk to get to a poll booth or otherwise too sociopathic to behave in that setting without getting arrested. I mean, have you MET the internet?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)