It's disturbingly simple: if you press a button or screen to vote, and can't literally see an immutable, tamper-evident, record of that vote that will actually be counted, then you can't know that something else was recorded. This is why paper and ballot boxes matter.
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You can prove the code correct, you can use flawless cryptography, but how do you know that's what's running? For blockchain or Chaum style systems, with proof-of-vote, how do you avoid coercion and vote-selling?
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What problem is e-voting even trying to fix? It's not hard to count paper ballots, and who cares how long it takes? A good compromise system is electronic vote printers, for better accessibility than pencils, and paper vote scanners with manual re-checks.
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I think you are interpreting the comic as being sarcastic, while I believe Randall is actually being serious (if hyperbolic) and agrees with you
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I think you misread the intent here. To paraphrase the tooltip comments “there are a lot of smart people working on it, and we should be using paper ballots at least until they are all retired”
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