Paper ballots aren't secure either, who's to guarantee that your paper ballot was recorded correctly? In many countries paper ballots have been tampered with, a

Paper ballots aren't secure either, who's to guarantee that your paper ballot was recorded correctly? In many countries paper ballots have been tampered with, altering elections (Venezuela, South Korea). Remember Bush vs. Gore in 2000? I don't understand why people are so trusting of paper ballots, I would much prefer an e-voting system where my vote can be verified afterwards. You don't need to inspect every internet connection, there's HTTPS. The key is that one should be able to verify one's vote to ensure that it was properly recorded. If everyone can verify their own vote, then they can verify that the voting wasn't hacked. With paper voting, it is impossible to verify your own vote - it is equivalent to tossing it into a black box. One might say "then people can sell votes!", but as Estonia has done, you can have it so that one can vote multiple times. And of course there should be extraordinarily stiff penalties on anyone buying/selling votes (I'd say minimum $30k or 20% of one's total wealth fine + prison time). Needing paper ballots is holding back democracy. E-voting would revolutionize democracy and for the first time in history allow a true direct democracy at scale. Of course e-voting cannot be conducted by emailing votes or some other insecure nonsense like that, but it is ludditism to suggest that it cannot be achieved, which many seem to suggest. This kind of thinking is literally holding society back.