• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    The digital part is to make it so that voting is fast and convenient

    But it wouldn’t be, would it? People would still have to line up and wait for their laminated receipts. The entire point of your “digital voting” system is defeated by this one element. If there’s a physical component required anyway, might as well do the more secure version, and have everyone voting physically too.

    As they do so, they can order a voting station to print out the physical ballot, which can be picked up or sent by mail to the voter

    I’m struggling to imagine the sheer amount of paper going through the postal services with this set-up. At this point it kinda’ sounds like you’re a lobbyist for some paper company. New York City Hall alone passes 50-100 bills per month. And you want people to be voting on their city, state, and federal bills and laws!

    It ain’t perfect. But it is important to try to at do “mostly good”, rather than being fundamentally sucky

    I’m sorry to say this, but this systems is fundamentally sucky.

    It requires the exact same things to go right as representative democracy, but introduces so many things to go wrong…

    Also, America isn’t Estonia - it is a much larger nation, so there are more resources all around to tackle the problem

    Estonia is the most digitised country on the planet, what are you even talking about, mate…?

    • Jännät@sopuli.xyz
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      8 hours ago

      They’re so enamoured with their idea that they just completely refuse to listen to reason, and they clearly don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about – classic Dunning-Kruger situation.

      BUT THE LAMINATED RECEIPTS