Comment by yosito

The number of comments here that assume paper ballots are inherently unhackable is disturbing. Paper is a technology like any other and subject to being manipulated by clever folks. The only way to have secure, trustworthy voting systems is to have them constantly being designed, updated, understood and publicly auditable. The only downside inherent to digital vs paper systems is that they're more complex and harder for people to understand and therefore audit, but there are plenty of upsides and the downsides can be mitigated through education. Open source is absolutely important for the auditability of voting software, but the same openness and transparency is just as vital with paper. tl;dr, it's not hard to hack paper!