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Also on this point, we know the large silent majority is made up mostly of moderates who want to live in a civilised democratic country where the government either leaves everyone alone or have a mass benevolent impact.

As long as attacks don't scale it seems safe to assume corruption will be localised and the integrity of the system will hold. The risk is that IT is used to centralise democracy to bring down costs, then becomes compromised in an unrelated attack.




But if the parties are picking partisan voting officials to oversee the election, there might not be much moderation or civility among them.




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