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Why aren't we voting online?

by David Brancaccio , Daniel Shin and Erika Soderstrom

Nov 2, 2020

One computer science professor says there are too many uncertain variables with our current internet structure to try voting online.

"Today, we simply don't have technology that allows us to gain any meaningful assurance that all of those phones and computers are operating without malware, without tampering," says Dan Wallach, computer science professor at Rice University.

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