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The part I love about paper-bases voting is the ability for anyone to visit the polling station and understand from A to Z how it works and how security is graranteed.

If you have doubts about the system, you can just come and see.



indeed. paper-based systems are truly transparent in that you can walk through the entire operation shoulder-to-shoulder to perform the audit.

A software system, even when reading the code, is much more difficult to see the chain of custody and workflow




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