Paper ballots are safest, but not perfectly safe. The voting system is routinely hacked in a lot of countries, e.g. in the US: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Paper ballots are safest, but not perfectly safe. The voting system is routinely hacked in a lot of countries, e.g. in the US: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering Russia: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_instances_of_ballot_box_stuffing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_instances_of_ballot_bo... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_voting Ultimately if the people in power do not respect the democratic process, they can and will hack the voting and vote count process. In addition to that modern democracies suffer from selection bias. The persons you can vote for are often a hand or self selected group of people which will not threaten the existing oligarchy. The only voting system I know that would be free of all these problems is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition . Because the greek understood already 2500 years ago: "It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election." (Aristotle, Politics 4.1294be)