Ah yes. That explains how my ballot is well-formed (formatting completely messed up by copy/paste, but probably 99% of all people couldn't tell a difference any

Ah yes. That explains how my ballot is well-formed (formatting completely messed up by copy/paste, but probably 99% of all people couldn't tell a difference anyhow): > gρi α−σi = gw+rσi α−σi = gwασi α−σi = gw = Ai and hρi (β/gMi )−σi = hw+rσi β−σi gσiMi = hwhrσi (hrgm)−σi gσiMi = hwg−mσi gσiMi = hw I'm sure there's some way to implement a somewhat working online voting process, but all those suffer from a major problem you already stated: the majority of people won't be able to understand or verify that their vote was counted. Your expected to fully trust that some machine took your intent and counted it correctly. I wouldn't for important votes. An important side effect is also that you make the process more scalable which IMHO isn't something you want in important votes as that makes the system more open to attacks. Consider tampering with the voting machine manufacturer to how difficult it is to manipulate distributed vote counting by random citizens. In Germany everyone can apply as "Wahlhelfer" (person helping with the voting process) and then both make sure the voting process is followed as well as count votes in a peer reviewed process.