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You mean people that had to line up for hours can not wait a little longer for results? Paper ballot have the advantage of being robust against e.g. power fail

You mean people that had to line up for hours can not wait a little longer for results? Paper ballot have the advantage of being robust against e.g. power failures. They are also trivially to scale up - just need small secluded space for people to fill them and an additional pen - much shorter waiting lines. There is not BIOS, there is no software to be rolled out or computer to be procured, installed, secured and finally put in secure storage or securely disposed.

stephen_g 2y ago
In my country we have paper ballots, but I have (quite seriously) never lined up for more than 20 minutes to vote! Being a country with compulsory voting helps, because the system has to make it possible for everyone without a valid exceptional circumstance to be able to vote (would be unfair to be fined for not voting if you were still waiting in line to vote when the polls closed), and also they can quite accurately predict the kind of numbers they're going to get at the polling places.