Missing the forest for the trees (Score 1)

The current systems are inferior in every respect to a relatively simple system based on credit cards with smart chips associated with a voter registration. Anonymity is hardly preserved when doing absentee voting which is widespread. And worse, you can't really verify your vote, unlike an online system. Denial of service is much more likely under the current systems than if we could go online with a credit card to vote and then verify it just like an order on Amazon and like current absentee voting we could vote over a month rather than a few hours. It's trivial to have separate organizations store the database which associates credit card number to voteid number vs. voteid number to vote. Classic separation of duties. Everyone could inexpensively verify their votes. And if there was an issue, they could use an old fashioned in person paper ballot. What about today? Lots of denial of service is entrenched in the system - with inconvenient locations, days of operation, hours. You never know if your vote was really counted and if it was, counted correctly. It takes a long time to count them too. Under the current system, anyone who loses ballots can affect the vote. Anyone who dumps ballots in the bin can never be found out either. You have to ask why there is so much resistance to using modern methods and some pragmatic procedures to just vote online like we order from Amazon. Verifiable, accurate, easy, low cost, hard to hack over a months voting period.