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by binbasti 5372 days ago
For elections to be considered democratic, they must not only be fair and anonymous, but also comprehensible to all. As any electronic voting system (even an insecure one) is only comprehensible to some, electronic voting is by definition not democratic and should therefore be forbidden in any country that claims itself to be that.

Actually, in Germany the highest court declared electronic voting to be unconstitutional on the grounds of deficient comprehensibility in 2009. Maybe we can use this argument in other countries, too.