All issues aside, some form of electronic voting system could benefit ballot counting, reduce workforces for all counting and be more trustworthy.<p>If a paper ballot is casted then I have no way of knowing wether it is counted, My ballot might be lost, invalid or wrongly counted by the one in a thousand people who might nefariously count it wrong. The paper voting system is just as much a black box as the electronic voting system. A second electronic system could prove usefull to check wether all casted ballots have been counted and wether you voted for the right party. Mismatches will no doubt happen as I hold no belief that either the electronic system or the ballots are perfect. But at least then we have two trails of evidence to determine who voted for who. The only downside is that it might lessen voting privacy. Maybe for a next article though.<p>"If a tree falls in the forest and no cryptographers are around to hear it, is the New South Wales iVote® system still insecure?"
Only if the Australian law permits it to.