Marketplace Tech Report for Monday, October 15, 2012
Some people think that the convenience of clicking Romney or Obama the same way you buy a song on iTunes could radically increase voter participation. So just what's stopping online voting? Is it simply a lack of enthusiasm or a problem of bureaucratic red tape? The real reason has a lot more to do with online security and just how easy it would be to hack such an online voting system -- or maybe rather how hard it would be to build one that was hack-proof.
Some people think that the convenience of clicking Romney or Obama the same way you buy a song on iTunes could radically increase voter participation. So just what’s stopping online voting? Is it simply a lack of enthusiasm or a problem of bureaucratic red tape? The real reason has a lot more to do with online security and just how easy it would be to hack such an online voting system — or maybe rather how hard it would be to build one that was hack-proof.
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