Comment by bulbar
10 hours ago
The problem is much simpler. If people could verify if their votes were counted correctly, at least 1 out of 20,000 would claim that their vote was counted incorrectly while it wasn't. Some are malicious, some pushed the wrong button, some just forgot that they changed their opinion since then.
That would be a very vocal minority that would immediately destroy any trust in the system.
Maybe the great filter is civilization's ability to deal with "vocal minorities" in non-genocidal fashion by threading the middle way. Somehow it's either total fash to 11 or death by 1000 nimby cuts that want neither kerncentrale nor windturbines but 100% green energy cheaply at around the clock.
Most verification systems involve a receipt kept by the voter used for verification for this reason.
That would make coercion pretty easy.
Excellent point!