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The fundamental problem with online voting is that putting the data online even in an isolated manner immediately creates the potential for a small attack to affect large numbers of votes, which is much less cost effective an attack than when they're on paper and physically distanced.

Someone will inevitably mention the Tom Scott voting machines video, whenever this topic comes up, so it may as well be me today.

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His name is spelled Зеленський. Any conversion to English letters requires following a method of romanising Cyrillic letters. The most common method, which admittedly is used in Russia, is to represent the ий with just a single Y, but in Ukraine I believe it's more common to use two.

Nevertheless, people don't always use the same system, just as Chinese 北京 "Beijing" used to be written in English as "Peking", due to the Romanisation system that was common at the time.

With the current political climate, it's probably best to use the double Y spelling.