Why don't Americans vote online?

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Tuesday is Election Day in the United States, and although the mostly state and local races won't stir the same passions as next year's presidential contest, millions of people will cast ballots.

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why don't we vote online?
because voting isn't casual. You want to SEE your vote being taken. physically
 
People complain about electronic voting machine fraud, could you imagine online fraud charges? What happen to the good old days of mechanical voting machines...
 
Voting should be done in person with open hand counts and results posted in each station. It doesn't actually take that much time when there are enough stations.
 
It's not really that online voting would have to be less secure than current methods (of which there is also minimal security). There is some base need in people to see paper for something that important. Even if the paper system is abstracted to the point that it is ripe for corruption and completely pointless, as it is impossible to manually recount, anyhow. Even if it's easier to manipulate paper ballots than a well designed computer system. Everyone just feels better if it's in person with paper. Because that's just the way it's done. And we can't change that. It's tradition. It's theatre. Voting is mostly theatre, anyhow. There aren't many REAL choices on that ballot. The less people think about the system, the better -- at least for those in power.
 
ilwrath said:
There is some base need in people to see paper for something that important.
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It's called trust. There is no point in having any system if it cannot be trusted and in person on paper has at least the potential to audit and potential to audit is deterrent to cheating.

You can have a completely secure computer voting system but it is indistinguishable from a completely fraudulent computer voting system. The only way to detect that the computer voting was fraudulent would be with an outside check, like for example, exit polling - but exit polling suddenly stopped being a reliable indicator, for some reason, in districts with electronic voting so now nobody does it any more (in fact, it may even have been banned).
 
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