Doug Ford confirms early Ontario election will be called next Wednesday
> Premier Doug Ford confirms he will be calling an early provincial election next week, paving the way for Ontarians to head to the polls at the end of February.
Which hopefully people will actually show up for…
Also, why the hell don’t we have online voting yet?
Relevant Tom Scott video
tl;dw changing enough physical votes to swing an election is difficult, but it would be trivial to do over the internet. Physical voting is simple to secure and easy to verify.
In addition, good elections have a couple more properties. They should be understandable by the average voter. Paper ballots work well for this (esp. in FFTP jurisdictions). Online voting makes it really hard for even experts to completely understand the system, and impossible outside of a tiny number of experts to verify.
Second, elections are a social activity, and should feel like it. Anything that make an election feel like we’re all getting together to select our leadership, rather than an adversarial process should be encouraged. Online anything these days seems to be optimizing for max animosity. A counterexample might be the Australian democracy sausages.
They won’t.
