Although I don't think the current implementation of electronic voting is needed, some kind of electronic voting may be needed to facilitate novel developments

Although I don't think the current implementation of electronic voting is needed, some kind of electronic voting may be needed to facilitate novel developments in representation. For example, why do we select our representatives based on where we live, and then have them represent us on every possible issue? This leads to issue voting, where a voter may choose a representative based solely on their stance on a single issue (for example, abortion), even if that representatives does not reflect their stances on all other topics. An issue-based representative system where you select several representatives, with each assigned a particular topic or subtopic of voter-selected granularity, would allow you to rank your interests and allow your overall political views to be better reflected by your elected representative(s). For example, you might rank privacy very highly as one of your topics, and elect someone from the EFF to represent you on privacy-related issues (but nothing else, as the EFF knows nothing about these other topics). As a secondary priority, you also care about low taxes, so you choose a fiscal conservative to represent you on most economic and spending issues. However, you also want to ensure that your local community is represented, so you finally elect a local politician to represent you on all other issues. For additional information on what such a system might look like, you may want to read this article. [0] However, as such a system has many scalability problems (logistically) if based on paper-based voting, it is only possible to implement practically using an electronic/digital system. However, the transparency and fairness of such an electronic system are no less important in this case than they are under our existing political structure, and possible more so. Hopefully this has illustrated some potential long-term benefits of electronic voting systems, even if it doesn't address the short-term problems generated by the closed-source, unaudited systems being deployed now. [0]: https://bford.github.io/2014/11/16/deleg.html https://bford.github.io/2014/11/16/deleg.html