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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why the internet is safe enough for banking but not voting on elections?

I don't understand why massive amounts of money are safe enough for use on online transactions but voting on local and national elections through the internet isn't a thing yet.
gpt
Voting needs to be anonymous and have a trusted trail.  Paper ballots fit this bill perfectly.  You walk into the booth alone and cast your ballot.  No matter who someone else told you to vote for they can't control that actual ballot.  The election is staffed by people from all major parties and ballots are put into counting machines, etc, in public view.  A computer usually tallies the results to make it faster but if there is an issue then they can be hand counted.

Online banking is not anonymous and everything you do is recorded.  If there is a problem they can pull logs of your IP, login attempts, transactions, everything that was done in your name.  Both parties want to ensure they each know who the other is and what they are doing.

Creating an internet system that allows someone to validate who they are so they can vote (only once) and yet doesn't store who they voted for is tough.  Even if someone *says* the system is anonymous how can you be sure the NSA (or a company or whomever) isn't recording who you voted for to use against you later?  Do you trust the company making the software to actually accept your vote for Kang rather than Kodos?  What about an employer who doesn't give people time off of work to vote but allows them to vote on a special office computer?  One that might have it's own tracking software or even just a camera in the ceiling to record who votes for who.