In an increasingly digital world, in which democracy is also measured by the use that politics gives to information technology, there is an issue in which States have increasingly opted for greater conservatism: the exercise of the right to vote. Even countries that quickly and successfully implemented electronic voting, in most cases face-to-face, in others remote, are currently taking a step back and putting such options aside: computer piracy has developed to the point where it is no longer possible have a level of absolute certainty that voting systems are incorruptible.
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