said by bennor:...The key is cared for properly. How many times have we seen paper ballots "mysteriously" found/discovered? In some cases just enough were found to tip the election one way or the other.
There will always be a risk of vote fraud/vote rigging any time you are collecting votes from a large group of voters spread out over a wide area. Electronic voting or paper ballots doesn't change the desire by some (for power or money or political ideology) to meddle in an election to skew the outcome of the votes cast.
However, tampering with electronic voting and results opens the door to the marvelous force-multiplier of digital computers. As it's been said: "Anyone can make a mistake, but it takes a computer to really screw things up". In this case, digital voting (especially online voting) offers an almost irresistible target for fraud because of the potential massive effects and limited perp exposure. Stealing or rigging 100 paper ballots takes some concerted effort, and abusing 10,000 such ballots represents a massive undertaking with a lot of human-asset exposure; not so with digital tampering... just a few hacked covert clicks of a mouse and, voila!
