It might be theoretically possible to devise an electronic voting scheme that is reasonably secure against various threat models (possibly with slightly differe

It might be theoretically possible to devise an electronic voting scheme that is reasonably secure against various threat models (possibly with slightly different tradeoffs than paper ballots), but so far, every scheme that has been used in practice seems to have been severely flawed. Plus, even if such a "good" e-voting system existed, it would probably be almost impossible to explain to people how it works. With paper ballots, you can have people observe the process and verify that it was fair. With all the wild accusations of fraud that we have already, I don't want to know what the world would look like if people had to do operations on the blockchain or something to verify that votes were counted correctly.