2 ms·
Paper ballots and their associated processes to secure, verify and count are simple and robust. Something like 90% of the population is capable of verifying the
by a_c_s 10y ago
Paper ballots and their associated processes to secure, verify and count are simple and robust. Something like 90% of the population is capable of verifying the process. It is therefore easy to set up a process whereby people of differing political affiliations work together to conduct the voting process (and recounts if necessary).
Electronic voting and their associated processes are complex and verifiable by only a small portion of the population (those who are both smart enough and technically skilled enough to dive into the code). Even then very few people have the skills to determine if hacking or other forms of tampering take place.
As a technologist there's too much incentive for a bad actor to tamper with electronic voting and it is too difficult to check if tampering has occurred.