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by oneon 2693 days ago
Paper voting has a big advantange: any random person from the street can understand all parts of it, and can think of virtually all possible manipulations.

You don't have the same on electronic voting systems. There you need to ask experts, [which again need experts [which again need experts [...]] to explain to you what is going on.

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Paper based voting also excludes me, a Swiss person living abroad, from reliably voting.

I don't understand why these discussions are done in this black/white manner. There's valid policy discussions to be had, but treating the other side as maliciously dumb isn't helpful.

The proposed eVoting solution will not do you much good then. It still relies on paper mail getting to you in time, and untampered with.

I understand the problem Swiss persons living abroad have with voting, but there are better ways to solve this than putting the whole vote at risk due to unsecurable Internet voting.