>you don’t need to be an aviation expert to trust the plane will fly. ...because when I get on the plane, I can look out the window and see that it's in the ai

>you don’t need to be an aviation expert to trust the plane will fly. ...because when I get on the plane, I can look out the window and see that it's in the air. With paper ballots, the systems are very interpretable - you can sign up to audit the ballot counting process and watch it happen, etc. But you can't do that with electrons in a computer - it's really just pure trust. That's what you lose.