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A comment on Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure. Parent comment
...because when I get on the plane, I can look out the window and see that it's in the air.
With paper ballots, the systems are very interpretable - you can sign up to audit the ballot counting process and watch it happen, etc.
But you can't do that with electrons in a computer - it's really just pure trust. That's what you lose.
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...because when I get on the plane, I can look out the window and see that it's in the air.
With paper ballots, the systems are very interpretable - you can sign up to audit the ballot counting process and watch it happen, etc.
But you can't do that with electrons in a computer - it's really just pure trust. That's what you lose.