To manipulate digital votes you only need to hack one piece of software or bribe/social engineer someone involved close enough with it. To manipulate paper vot

To manipulate digital votes you only need to hack one piece of software or bribe/social engineer someone involved close enough with it. To manipulate paper votes you need to have presence in enough voting booths and influence the votes there. With paper it might be easier to sneak in a handful of fraudulous votes, but it will be near impossible to commit fraud at a scale that influences the elections. With software it is harder to get that access (although the article shows that one mistake by a dev can make getting access a matter of one hour...), but much easier to then commit election influencing fraud. The fact that you do not recall any fraud either means it didn't happen (let's hope for the best) or didn't get detected. The latter is obviously very scary. There's btw more problems with online voting specifically. It's impossible to guarantee the secret of voting. This is not an issue when voting electronically in voting booths.