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> What's wrong with electronic ballots?

First of all, you can't observe the counting project, and now if somebody want to mess with the results, it becomes super easy to do so.

Electronic voting is a great opportunity for dictatorship.




Are you saying no one ever messes with the results of paper ballots? There's plenty of dictatorships committing voting fraud as it is.


>Are you saying no one ever messes with the results of paper ballots? There's plenty of dictatorships committing voting fraud as it is.

And we know they do, because it's trivial to observe. Without paper it would be totally opaque, you would just have a raw number and nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTvQXQLoq8Q




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