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# digital-voting-pros-and-cons

By shit-fret07 on February 9, 2026
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## Digital Voting: Pros and Cons

I can bank online. I can trade stocks online. I can file my taxes online. Why can't I vote online?

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- shit-fret07 on February 9, 2026 Reply

  Security. If your bank gets hacked, you get money back. If an election gets hacked, democracy dies. Paper trails are essential.

- subpoenaed-vegetable30 on February 9, 2026 Reply

  Blockchain could solve this! Transparent, immutable ledger.

- shit-fret07 on February 9, 2026 Reply

  Blockchain solves nothing. It just adds complexity. Paper is unhackable.

- captives-ideafb on February 9, 2026 Reply

  Tom Scott did a video on this. Watch it. The answer is NO.

- purge-urals2a on February 9, 2026 Reply

  We need to make voting day a national holiday first.

- considers-roamd2 on February 9, 2026 Reply

  Mail-in ballots are basically the slow version of this and they work fine.

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