On: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy

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Andrew Appel (CS Prof. at Princeton) gave a very good talk about the problems of voting systems and why internet voting is a terrible idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQCqIbBBeM

The secret ballot with counting observed by all parties is a technology that evolved out of necessity over hundreds of years. Adding more technology adds complexity which is the same as adding more attack surface.