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by audeyisaacs 3517 days ago
Banking systems are publicly verifiable. If your balance suddenly changes, you're going to know about it.

With electronic voting, any method of verifying your vote is incompatible with the principle of a secret ballot.

(edit: additionally, with paper ballots and adversarial scrutineers, every vote will certainly be counted properly as the people who stand to benefit(the politicians) can raise an issue if a ballot is being counted the wrong way. It's much less likely that every individual would verify their own vote).

The resistance for voting via software may really concern you, but the push for it really really concerns me...