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No easier than it is now. That is actually not true. With documents there a paper trails that are left in very inconspicuous places...an old newspaper kept in the attic, an old BC that obama said he found in a book....

Heck, I found a clip from an old article when I was hit by a Sears truck when I was 4 years old in my Mom's old keep sakes.....from 1965

Funny thing is, it's on the Internet too under Ancestry.com, but I have a paper copy to compare it to and verify its legitimacy. If everything is digitized and paper is eliminated, well you can surly see the problems with that.

Why do you think they might want to eliminate paper ballots?

With documents there a paper trails that are left in very inconspicuous places...an old newspaper kept in the attic, an old BC that obama said he found in a book....

Multiple copies under control of different people is the key. Whether any of the copies are paper (or microfilm) is less of an issue.

Multiple copies are why email is hard to forge. When an email gets sent, it ends up multiple machines between sender and recipient(s). Chances are, the would-be forger has root access to at most one or two of them.

Why do you think they might want to eliminate paper ballots?

Again, multiple copies under control of different people is the solution. The way it should work is, when you vote, a paper ballot gets generated (or maybe you mark a paper ballot), then an electronic ballot is recorded locally and simultaneously sent offsite to different servers. The local tally, the remote tallies, and the paper count (if necessary) should all agree.