Nothing else associated with this effort has been or will be cheap.
Online elections can be extremely cheap.
Hence I much prefer online voting, and I don't want a voting system that is incompatible with online operation. Online operation of a secret ballot is somewhat more complicated, and requires the use of trusted third parties. A TTP is by definition an entity that all the participants trust. Coming up with the TTP is the real difficult part. Joop innocently suggests his votebot.