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Individuals being able to choose their operating system when accessing bank websites, and being able to keep secrets to themselves, has much more bearing on every day life than "internet voting".

Also note that voting etc could easily be implemented with smart cards (eg SIMs, credit card chips, etc). These are still trusted computing, but are at least limited in scope. Top-down control has no place in general CPUs if we wish to remain an open society.



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