Voting in the Future
When we went to vote today, there was no clear information as to where one was supposed to go. We went back and forth before finding our place, then stood in a queue for almost an hour to actually cast the vote. All of which made me wonder whether someday it might be possible to cast one’s vote via, what else, the Internet, to avoid all this hassle. The risks with that approach are obvious: what if voting accounts get hacked? Turns out Scott Adams had already responded to that risk by first acknowledging the inevitable: “There’s a 100% chance that (an electronic system)…will get hacked and all future elections will be rigged.” In India’s case, aren’t elections rigged in any case? So any objection to what I proposed is just opposition to a different form of rigging! Adams refers to the average (American) voters as “snake-dancing simpletons”. In India’s case, don’t most people vote their caste (or religion) or for whoever gave them a TV or liquor or a bicycle, if not hard ...