In what world did a bunch of sci fi geeks not realize it might be problematic to accept balloting based on email address identities? What next, make a 4chan post and use the comments as a way to count votes?

You can’t do digital voting in an unsecured environment. This is like, internet 101. You cannot do genuine digital voting on the open internet. It will never be able to be fully trusted. This is really basic fundamentals here, to the point that it’s basically malfeasance to even try. May as well jump off a skyscraper thinking you can fly, it’s roughly at that level of sense.

Even the times the voting seemed to work, you should still regard it with heavy skepticism. There must be some kind of physical correlation to a verifiable human identity for a vote to be worth consideration, so that it remains possible for someone to check them in the future. Unless you just don’t give a fuck.

I thought this understanding had already entered the mainstream, like, a decade ago. Or do we need to name more things after Hitler?