Representatives made a lot of sense when the fastest mode of transit was by horse and buggy, and it took weeks to get a letter from Atlanta to Philadelphia. They make very little sense in an instant and digital age.
Internet 1.0 may not be built for online voting, but eventually some sort of internet with a ubiquitous online ID system will be implemented.
The internet is perfectly fit for online voting, except for this "you can prove how you voted" problem.
Problem is, voting requires that you must not be able to prove how you voted, and that you are certain that your voting was counted correctly. Those two requirements are at odds, what makes all voting systems insecure to some extent - yes, even paper.
Now, vote buying is something that can be dealt with on the real world. Any systemic buying will leave traces. I do think the flaw should be on it, instead of the correctness of the result. Paper, by the way is flawed on both, but lives traces on both, that the winners never follow...
Representatives made a lot of sense when the fastest mode of transit was by horse and buggy, and it took weeks to get a letter from Atlanta to Philadelphia. They make very little sense in an instant and digital age.
Internet 1.0 may not be built for online voting, but eventually some sort of internet with a ubiquitous online ID system will be implemented.