Z:gnu-www-ja-free-digital-society--ece3b1-Elections are special, because/en

Elections are special, because there's nobody involved that we dare trust fully. Everybody has to be checked, crosschecked by others, so that nobody is in a position to falsify the results by himself. Because if anybody is in a position to do that, he might do it. So our traditional systems for voting were designed so that nobody was fully trusted, everybody was being checked by others. So that nobody could easily commit fraud. But once you introduce a program, this is impossible.