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> The major problem with online voting is that people can be coerced into voting against their wishes

The main problem is guaranteeing one vote per eligible voter.

Coercion is a related but smaller problem. It's much harder to coerce most of the people most of the time than it is to stuff the ballot.



Worth mentioning that ballot stuffing is a problem with the people counting the votes/running the polls, not the voters. So it would be more accurate to say that the problem is preventing the entity that organizes the vote from accessing discrete votes.




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