U.S. 2016: For whom will you vote?

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I agree that electronic voting is bad. However don't pretend that pencil and paper voting is impossible to temper with. Erasers exist.

That argument is incorrect for two reasons. Reason number 1 - even IF you fill in your ballot paper in pen, it is allowed to cross out all numbers and start again. Reason number two - if someone has the opportunity to erase ballots then they have the opportunity to change them as just described, or to simply destroy them instead which would be far simpler.

Proof that you can cross out numbers: "Alterations to numbers will not make a ballot paper informal, provided the voter’s intention is clear, for example a number can be crossed out and another number written beside it." -page 8 of the formality guidelines.

On top of that, I think that allowing the entire US to vote for their leader is a much more democratic way of doing things than choosing an elected official from the party itself.

No it isn't because people's votes have different values based on where they live. If everyone had an equal vote, you might have a point, but they do not. The president needs a majority of states to be elected, not voters, therefore a voter in a state with a low population has a more powerful vote than a voter in a more populated state. As this is compounded by the fact that there are finitely many people to campaign to - thus campaigning heavily to win fewer voters in states with lower populations will be much more successful than campaigning in bigger states. How is this in any way "democratic"?