Electronic Voting is the Future of Democracy

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Over the past two decades, we have heard the same refrain from politicians, pundits, documentarians, and digital experts and it goes something like this: Electronic voting is hackable therefore paper ballots are the only way to avoid rigged elections.

On its surface, the argument sounds reasonable, especially when it is followed by a litany of ways by which electronic voting machines…