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Because those two things are in the opposite ends of the privacy scale. Online banking works because there's a requirement that your every action is tracked, traceable and directly linkable to you as an individual. Voting require that you're confidant that your vote is counted, but in no way traceable back to you.

The hard bit of online voting is eliminating traceability of individual votes.




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