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what is so wrong with paper-ballot voting? even most of the developed countries are relying on paper.

Honest elections DO require a paper trail, even with EV-machines

results now are declared within hours of counting starts

for a country of our size with 120 crore people, it already takes multiple days of voting in phases, due to security and administrative difficulties

if we go back to paper ballots, counting will take many days, error prone, we would have large number of invalid votes

booth capture used to be norm in UP bihar in 1980's early 1990's