Except the participation of the voter, as much as possible of the voting and counting process should be automated and freed from human intervention. The aim should be to remove as many of the middlemen including those that can manipulate any automated system.
https://twitter.com/mkvenu1/status/1324172929160998912
absentee/postal paper voting with reliance on verification and counting by pre-appointed humans at counting end is possibly the worst situation for electoral process in large populations. While electronic voting is not full proof either, but can be made more secure.
Ideally voters shd hv the right to "retrieve": to actually see how and in whose favour their vote was counted. So that groups of voters favouring a candidate or item in a referendum can cross check through automated double blind process the total votes shown as cast on their name
The very anonymity of the modern electoral process makes it ironically the most manipulable or subversible. Anonymity protects the voters from retribution or pressure but also results in their vote being slyly dimissed or worse, made to count for something they didnt choose.
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