elections and voting
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Elections and Voting
The Internet is not a tool that can be used for elections to bring the United States closer to being a true democracy. There are two main reasons why it won't work one of the reasons is that hackers can get into what ever they want. The other mains reason is that not everybody has a computer. Trying to solve these problems would cost too much money either to try to keep hackers out or to get computers to everybody. As one will see there is no true solution to the voting problem other than keeping it the way it is.
The first and main problem is hackers; they get into all sorts of stuff we don't want them to. They can break into whatever they want, so what keeps them from getting into the voting system. Nothing. If we update our protection the hackers will update their anti-protection programs. This is dangerous because they could change the whole election in their favor...