Most democracies do not use voting machines because it’s impossible to trust anyone with creating and maintaining it.

If there is a way to change the vote tallies, then clever people will use it to enrich themselves.

The only way to circumvent most cheating is by paper ballots recounted manually in front of representatives of all candidates: recounted as many times as asked; and the ballots must be kept in public view until a winner is declared.

Putting the ballots into any other device negates some or all of the above.

And I would only have to say this in American political posts. But Americans are married to voting in ways that cannot be verified, except in some states. So most likely what’s seen as common sense in most of the world is either ignored or viewed with suspicion here.

Ask any student in the uk though; and I’m just echoing what has been taught in school to young children