Reply #8: Paper ballots have been manipulated for a long time. And

[John Q. Citizen]

people have been caught for manipulating paper ballots for a long time.

It's easier to catch paper ballot manipulation than it is too catch digital ballot manipulation. For one thing, we have a lot more experience in catching paper ballot manipulation.

It's harder to do large scale paper ballot manipulation than it is to do large scale digital manipulation. It requires far more time, people and evidence of the effort with a wide scale paper ballot manipulation than it does for a wide scale digital manipulation.

Casting a ballot isn't rocket science and shouldn't be, and counting them shouldn't be either.

Let's keep it simple and secure.

I don't need an electronic pencil and I don't need an electronic ballot box. Even if the writer thinks I do.