'Upgrade' elections with online voting, says cryptography expert behind Switzerland's e-voting system

John Leonard
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The last major upgrade to UK electoral law was votes for women 100 years ago, notes cryptographer David Galindo

If you were to design a democratic voting system designed to exclude certain groups in order to favour the incumbent political parties, you'd probably come up with something like the processes used...

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