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THE USA IS A DECADE AWAY FROM ONLINE VOTING

Has it occurred to you that the computer runs our lives today, but we still seem wedded to voting in person or through the obsolete postal system?  Why don't we completely convert to E-voting online?  Such a process also works better for pandemics, bad weather and other challenges faced by citizens.  Should also be cheaper. The first stage of the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was created half a century ago during the Cold War to develop a system for disseminating information after a nuclear attack.  Their work allowed academic and research organizations to share information with the Defense Department. All this effort led to what officially became the internet  on 1 January 1983.  Thus, theoretically, the technology has been available for nearly 40 years to vote online. Turns out one country has already taken this step, Estonia , while Switzerland, German and Norway are experimenting.  Estonia is a small Baltic country of 1.5 million, about th