Unfortunately, despite strong opposition from many computer scientists, it seems that nobody can prevent electronic from being used in elections. Of course there is a very strong pressure from voting machines vendors, but the greatest problem is that public opinion, politicians and intellectuals don't realize how dangerous the e-vote is. They do not seem to know that the main aim of present-day verifiable electoral procedures is to prevent Governments from committing acts of electoral fraud. Governments who wants to be re-elected have a motivation to commit such acts and a means of doing that through the handling of the electora apparatus.

Many people, parties, economic groups, lobbies, countries, criminal or terrorist groups would like to have the power given by elections. This is not theory! Power is still the greatest desire for many people: a few months ago in the Republic of Ukraine a politician was poisoned by his opponents. Do you think such people would be incapable of counterfeiting files of anonymous votes?

Opposition against electronic voting goes against our technological trend, and thus it is hard to explain. Nevertheless our society needs to think and argue about electronic voting before it is actually used and some multinational corporation is given the contract to hold our elections and thus the possibility to decide (with no democratic control) our next governors and rulers.

We, the people, must decide what to do with our Democracy: do we want to have to trust unverifiable electronic votes or do we prefer to carry on using verifiable ballot papers and repeatable public counting procedures?

Democracy can't survive the electronic vote because the use of computers actually changes the very nature of voting!