They are unnecessary. In every case, a simple human made record on physical media beats them in trust and overall cost and risk. Electronic records are not tr

They are unnecessary. In every case, a simple human made record on physical media beats them in trust and overall cost and risk. Electronic records are not trustworthy, unless they are personally identifiable. Elections are different from pretty much every other case due to both anonymity and freedom for voters to vote or not. The most common correction? Printed, human readable vote records! Optical scan is nice! Human records counted on these can be audited and or hauled into court for a full count, under the public eye, if need be. Elections for profit really do not make any sense. Trustworthy civics are best done by people, using simple, production proven, time tested means. Policy is too important and the incentives to corrupt the process too high otherwise. Bonus! Simple human means scale. We always have enough people to get a reasonable outcome. At any given time, the elderly, and others not having full time work, or even those with work fkex time freedom are available to run the election. Could even compensate them and get through elections cheaper and with more trust than we can with increasingly complex devices. Friends don't suggest electronic voting to friends. I love tech, but for this use case, it is simply not a match.