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Originally Posted by cabmando View Post
You gonna get into 2 factor authentication for voting? I'm all for it! Before fully logged in you have to enter not only your unique identifier but a code that is sent by email or text that is only good for 10 minutes.
Good basic idea, useless implementation. Neither email nor SMS is secure. And it's quite terrifying the # of people - including banks - that think they are...

For MFA, use OATH or FIDO - if you don't want a hardware dongle, some password managers store the hash encrypted and generate the token themselves.
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