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The paper ballots that caused the 2000 debacle really wasn't any better the problems with e-voting we have today. The problem isn't the medium of voting but who is in charge of creating and maintaining the ballots.

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The paper ballots that were punch cards caused problems.

The paper ballots that were marked and optically scanned caused no problems and were easy and fast to recount.

Some counties in FL had the old punch card ballots, some had the optically scanned. All of the problems were with the punch card ballots. And with the lawyers arguing over hanging chads and other nonsense.

For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_chads

You're also forgetting about the butterfly ballots that confused voters because of their design. A large number of voters claimed they voted for the wrong person because of it.

> http://andrys.com/flballot.html

Paper ballots works well in every European democracies and is far more transparent and secured than the electronic machines we have today. As a matter of fact, Germany has tested electronic machines but went back to paper ballots to preserve the reliability of the vote. The article doesn't just cast the doubt on electronic voting machines, it shows they are set-up to enable election fraud. How many more proofs is needed to convince voters that sadly, elections results can't be trust?

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