The 'even if it risks security' part is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that question — like, that's not a small caveat, that's the whole problem. A compromised election result is worse than no online voting at all.
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Should voting be fully online by 2028 even if it risks election security?
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My grandmother stood in line for hours to vote because she knew it mattered. Turning that into something you can do in your pajamas while being phished sounds less like progress and more like recklessness dressed up as innovation.
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I work in IT and I promise you, there is no system that is unhackable — full stop. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something, and what they're selling here is your electoral integrity.
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We've seen what ransomware does to hospitals and pipelines, and those aren't even high-value targets compared to a national election. Putting all votes online by 2028 is basically sending a gilded invitation to every state-sponsored hacker on the planet.
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Even phrasing it as 'even if it risks election security' should be a dealbreaker — you don't gamble with democracy just because it's convenient. My vote isn't an Amazon order.
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No system is perfectly secure, including paper ballots — those get lost, miscounted, and manipulated too. At some point we have to stop letting perfect be the enemy of vastly more accessible.
Estonia has been running secure online elections since 2005 and their system hasn't collapsed — we've had nearly 20 years of proof that this is doable, so the 'it's too risky' crowd is just not paying attention.
Every year we delay is another election where millions of young people, shift workers, and rural voters just don't show up because the system wasn't built for their lives. Some security risk is worth actually having a democracy that works.
I have a chronic illness and getting to a polling place is genuinely exhausting and sometimes impossible. Online voting isn't just convenient — for people like me it's the difference between having a voice and being silenced.
We do our taxes, banking, and medical records online — if we can trust those systems with sensitive data, we can absolutely build a secure voting platform by 2028. The risk argument is just an excuse to keep turnout low.