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[modifier] Electronic Frauds

Each technique used to collect and store votes has its own risks, thus electoral frauds are always possible. The fact that votes must be anonymous, to protect voters from illicit pressure, means that nobody can verify if each vote is what its (unknown) voter actually cast. For this reason the only way to have certainty about electoral results is to collect votes using secure and verifiable procedures.

Paper elections held under proper public monitoring can guarantee fair and square elections because humans can verify operations dealing with ballot papers which are visible and tangible objects. The Italian electoral procedures are a good example since no one has questioned the legitimacy of the electoral result in the last 60 years.

Electronic elections cannot be held under public monitoring because computer procedures are not verifiable by humans since we are not equipped for verifying operations which occur on the microscopic scale within nanosecond timeframes. In fact, for people who didn't program them, computers act just like black boxes and their operations can truly be verified only by knowing the input and comparing the expected output with the actual output. Unfortunately, because of vote secrecy, elections have no known input nor any expected output with which to compare electoral results, thus electronic electoral results can't be verified by humans!

That's why some people [1] think electronic voting is by its nature open to a wide range of undetectable frauds.