> The focus is on minimizing how objectionable the winning candidate is over all voters.
This is precisly the problem with electronic voting. It is not about creating a process that is mathematically sound — it is about creating a process the average voting helper can transparently follow, verify and trust in. Every electronic system, no matter how transparent is always a black box to everbody who didn’t either design it, or has both the skill and time to take it apart.
A mathematically sound result that average people can doubt, because it is a blackbox to them, is useless for any meaningful vote.
This is precisly the problem with electronic voting. It is not about creating a process that is mathematically sound — it is about creating a process the average voting helper can transparently follow, verify and trust in. Every electronic system, no matter how transparent is always a black box to everbody who didn’t either design it, or has both the skill and time to take it apart.
A mathematically sound result that average people can doubt, because it is a blackbox to them, is useless for any meaningful vote.