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The Soviet Union had paper ballots.

• pilsetnieks 8y ago
  You're being facetious and you know it. It wasn't paper ballots that enabled the communists to hold on to power, it's that they didn't have any opposition, and their elections wouldn't be recognized as fair and valid by any modern standard.
  • emerongi 8y ago
    Half-facetious. If a government really wants to hold on to power by force, they can do it one way or another - elections end up being theatre in that case anyways.
    • mamon 8y ago
      Except in Soviet Union terrorizing all the opposition parties/majority of voters was long, costly and brutal process. Online voting makes the whole thing cheap, easy, and undetectable.
      • antris 8y ago
        And they got caught. Everyone knew the elections were rigged. With electronic vote you can get away with the crime and nobody's wiser.
        • Strom 8y ago
          Vote results are always really close to pre-election poll results. You can't really manipulate the results too much unless you somehow prohibit polling.
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