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The problem isn't that it can't be done, the problem is that it can't be done without disruption.
If eVoting were a thing, how long do you think it would take for 4chan to completely fuck it up?
And I don't mean in a "In a stunning upset today, the new President is write in candidate Boaty McBoatface", I mean in a DDoS attack blocking ANYONE from voting.
Heck, even systems that expect mass traffic without interruption go down all the time like when a new game gets released, you think voting traffic is somehow immune to that?
Voting is too important to leave to an electronic system.
It's already done electronically. The information is just shifted to a different medium. Saying that it can't be done when it's already being done isn't factual.
The tabulation is done electronically, on machines with no internet connection.
Voting electronically involves opening a machine to the public internet and that way lies madness.
They most certainly have Internet connections. How else can they know who is in the system to vote? I have worked as an employee in the government that gives those to the sites for tabulations.
That's not the way it works. When you show up to vote, you aren't validated by the machine, you're validated by the poll worker before you even get to the machine.
All the machine does is collect the votes, then the votes are sent to a tabulation facility physically by removing the storage from the machine and manually carrying it to tabulation. There is no electronic connection or transfer of votes.
This is the same way voting was done non-electronically. Poll worker checks you in, gives you access to the voting machine, you punch your card, put the card in a slot. All the cards are collected and sent off for counting.
That is not how it works in the county I worked for. The process may be different from state to state. There most definitely is a scan with your registration and it confirms your identity and then casts your votes.
I'm not surprised though. There are so many different variants of voting within a state. States also manage those mechanics. States interpret many laws and implement many in different ways for a million different reasons. Then courts examine those.