People keep saying that but electronic voting would be great! Set it up so the process is exactly like mail-in ballots except digital and you can’t have made it any worse. It’s not like emailing a PDF to be opened by an election official is any different than mailing a document to be opened by that same official.
How many Nigerian princes have asked for your bank account number via physical mail? How about via email?
The internet lowers the barrier to certain forms of abuse substantially enough that I don't think you can so easily say you won't have made it any worse.
I mean none because Gmail's spam filters are pretty good these days but I take your point. I'm not at all saying people should be trained to vote via unsolicited email. You would have to ask for digital voting when you register. And you would of course be able to check that your ballot was received through the same online form that already exists for mail-in ballots.
Right now you already give election officials your email for mail-in ballots and if there's a problem with your ballot they'll email you!
I think we could do a lot better than this when it comes to online voting but as a baseline optionally replacing the transport from physical mail to email I don't think would be the end of the world.
Except for the sick, disabled, elderly, deceased, people overseas or out-of-town, anyone in the military that's deployed, people who don't have good access to transportation, people who work long continuous shifts like healthcare workers and firefighters, poll workers, people in jail awaiting their trials, people with stalkers...
