Airplane safety is necessarily complicated. To make a giant 300 passenger airplane safe to fly requires an incredible amount of engineering, for a reason. You j

Airplane safety is necessarily complicated. To make a giant 300 passenger airplane safe to fly requires an incredible amount of engineering, for a reason. You just can't build this in a way that laypeople can understand. Voting is fundamentally simple. People have been doing this for thousands of years, and it's intuitive how it should work. People mark ballots (in private); people count ballots (and then other people count the same ballots); the ballots aren't destroyed until the vote is finished; everyone calls each other and figures out what the total is. The amazing thing is anyone can look at what goes on and say "yep, that looks right", or "hey, I don't think they're supposed to do that…". The whole thing needs a pretty significant human effort, but, again, people have been doing this for a long time, and large numbers of those humans can easily be volunteers. Also, that human effort is how you build a democracy. It is not a problem that needs to be solved. As soon as you add software, you've added hundreds of layers of complexity to what was a very simple problem. You've turned it from a democratic, easy to follow system, to something that very few people can have anything to do with. It's like replacing letter writing with Facebook. Sure, you've made the surface act of communicating easier, but to do that you've added an ocean of complexity that nobody understands.