Well, agree to disagree. :D I see your points, and I would agree that the majority would still keep their trust. > I don't understand why you think people wou

Well, agree to disagree. :D I see your points, and I would agree that the majority would still keep their trust. > I don't understand why you think people wouldn't trust this. Because people are not always rational beings, often don't understand statistics and, in my experience, the set of people not trusting journalists and having doubt on past elections having significant overlap. If you are not convinced the press isn't lying, and maybe just prints what the government wants, you will not expect that they uncover election intervention. And your friends may be on a list of the city hall, "they" know that they vote for certain parties[1]. This is basically verbatim what voters sometimes tell you, why they don't vote via mail. It's easy to transfer those fears onto electronic voting. It's very hard to keep believing in serious election fraud if you see how (this kind of) analogue voting works, though. You have to trust nobody, only yourself, at least in regards to your local polling station. > The whole process you're describing for physical polling places is a million times more work for any individual. It requires a massive amount of time and attention. Yes, I don't disagree. It's significantly more work, inefficient and antiquated. All true. I'm just not convinced that the convenience of electronic / online voting is worth the risk that a) a fuck-up due to any kind of bug / security problem and b) people losing even the slightest bit of trust into elections because of "magic computer", even if they are caused by delusions, would pose. [1] Germany has no "registration" as Republican or Democrat (w/ German parties of course) like the US has - they don't have such lists