21st century election using 19th century voting

No, you're talking about a group of vote counters. If you can be paranoid about one, why not the other?

Uh no. You're completely missing the point.

All it takes is one person to distribute a vote-altering virus to millions. One person to hack into the central database and manipulate or delete votes. One person to launch a distributed botnet attack that could disable the entire system.

However, to alter significant numbers of paper ballots, you need thousands of operatives working in tens of thousands of voting precincts breaking into sealed, locked ballot boxes that are in plain view to exchange votes.

They're not at all, in any way shape or form, equivalent or comparable.

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