Comment by dola

this is on a similar level of trust as the question about whether your paper vote is actually counted by some volunteer or just scraped. But I agree, that e-voting systems require a high level of trust by the users but I would argue that it is comparable to the trust you need in letter voting. The main difference in my view is the authority is typically split between fewer people with an e-voting system giving a single person more potential influence when they abuse their power. (e.g. a single server admin can deploy a malicious version of the system rather than a person only having access to maybe a few thousand ballots)