[noir-york]

Democracy must not only be done, but also seen to be done. Trust in that most essential of democratic processes - vote counting - must be absolute.

Approaching vote counting as a mere technical problem that can be solved with enough technical safeguards misses the point. You cannot just ask a democracy to beta test vote counting and fix the bugs post-election - that will kill trust in the process.

Politics is polarised enough as is and you will find demagogues who will latch on to anything to reduce the legitimacy of an election.

It shouldn't even be up for discussion that trust and legitimacy are the most important goals in vote counting. Stick to paper voting and only introduce e-voting in parallel and not as the authoritative and final vote counting solution.