It's not about tallying digits, it's about maintaining the secret ballot, and making it really hard to commit election fraud. (As opposed to voter fraud, which

It's not about tallying digits, it's about maintaining the secret ballot, and making it really hard to commit election fraud. (As opposed to voter fraud, which is an insignificant problem.) It's such a bad idea that Tom Scott has not one, but two videos on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI (Computerphile channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs (his channel, more recent) And also, if 20 people can handle ballots from 1000 people (no clue if that's realistic but it doesn't matter), then if you add another 1000 people. Well... since you added people and the resource you need to count is people it's a self scaling solution. Sure you might need larger facilities, but we're not exactly running out of schools (another thing tied to the population). The only reasons to make voting electronic are: * To make money * To commit election fraud which is why I said there are no "good" reasons. :)