Verifiable Electronic Voting

In short: power is corrupting. People who want to get in power and stay in power are not averse to cheating in elections. To make sure it is as hard as possible to cheat in an election we have lots of procedures around it; everything from how you are identified in the polling station via how you fill out your vote in the seclusion of a voting booth to how your vote mixes with all the other votes in the ballot box to make sure that no-one knows how you voted. We also have lots of observers making sure that nothing adverse is going on.