The main problem with technological electoral system is the quorum of corruption. Every election on a national scale is a complicated transaction involving millions of people. It can be assumed that based on our crime statistics that there are some untrustworthy people involved in each election. The saving grace with paper electoral system is that the limit of these is very small. I an election system with two parties one can assume corruption on both sides cancelling the other. The only corruption that persists is where there is no counter corruption to negate it. 🙂 . In order to win an election beyond this ‘normal’ static white noise corruption is to have an organization that would needs to span many people across many geographies and many persuasions and many walks of life. Such an enterprise would be almost impossible to hide hence the paper votes generally work and are as corruption safe as possible. The quorum of corruption to win a paper election is so huge we can consider them safe.

Electronic voting system could reduce the corruption quorum to just one. This is unsafe knowing that we know that there are corrupt people among us. It is particularly a problem for political elections where corruption could be sourced not only from selfish monetary gains but from altruistic and ideological motives. Individuals that would normally be considered trust worthy could change their attitudes just for elections.

The efficient nature of technology is not welcome for political elections. We need an inefficient political election process with a high corruption quorum.