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A prerequisite of any Democracy is that people have full knowledge and understanding of what's going on. In fact people participate in political life by being able to access all the info, the documents, and the news about the country and its government. That is why media must be free and pluralist in Democracies. Voting is only the (recurrent) final act of the people's participation in politics.
Nowadays the real danger to democracies is the concentration of media and economic power in the hands of a few people and certainly not the fact that we use "old-fashioned" ballot papers to elect our representatives.
Thus, it is obvious that we can't revitalize our democracies by simply converting ballot papers into "ballot bytes"!The fact that e-voting equipments (hardware and software) is under the complete control of a big business is a major threat to our democracies. All over the world e-vote equipment is designed, developed, built and sold by just a few companies, and it is really difficult to know who such companies belong to.
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