Severe conflict of interest?

[August]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

For democracy's sake, shouldnt these machines be ruled out and a manual system be used? At least for just this election?

They should be ruled out permanently imo. Votes need to be recorded in a more permanent way. With manual ballot voting I check a box next to the name of my chosen candidate on a piece of paper with an indelible ink marker. Anyone who looks at that ballot will see the mark that I made. Very difficult to spoof that.

With electronic voting however there is a separation between the button a voter pushes and how his vote is eventually recorded. There are no boxes of ballots that can be recounted and checked just database entries that are far more easily manipulated.

I see their adoption as perilous for my country.