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states tend to have loads of regulations protecting the paper upon which votes are made and from which they are tabulated. There are regulations for the creation of ballots, the certification of ballots, the use of ballots, the chain of custody of cast ballots, provisions for monitors overseeing the counting of ballots and regulations for recounting those ballots. It's all about putting as much sunshine on the process as possible.
Conversely, we have no such protections with electronic voting machines that don't use/provide a detailed paper trail to audit in case of problems or to use in recounts. We are not allowed to see what is taking place inside the machine - no sunshine.
That's the difference. We freely acknowledge, as a society, that people make mistakes, errors in judgement, and are sometimes corrupt. Because we freely acknowldege that, we judiciously put protections in place.
Now we need to admit that those same things, errors and corruption, can effect electronic voting machines. We need to put the same protections in place and a detailed paper trail is part of that.
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