It's horrible when a familiar respectable blogger suddenly dumps a pile of partisan talking points all seriously as if it's just as valid as their regular content. Suddenly, it shakes your confidence in their ability to think rationally when they're copying the exact beliefs of a major political group. He's just put a bit of "security" spin on it but still with the exact same conclusions.

He doesn't bother to show evidence of how this "undermining of democracy" would actually be a problem. Where do people stop voting because they don't trust the counting even when it's actually being done honestly? Where do people vote for the "wrong" candidates because they don't know what they want and need his benevolent intelligence to shield them from "bad" ideas? I guess those things have happened in the middle east depending on how you judge "bad" and "wrong", and to what extent you respect people's personal and religious beliefs.