I agree. The biggest issue this nation faces, IMHO, is the lawlessness within our own government. The other issues could be reasonably solved if we had real ways of holding government accountable to the rule of law.
The vulnerability of paper records is that if they’re going to be counted by machine at all they use punch-holes and a whole stack can be lined up at once and punched through with a knitting needle. And the handling gets the “hanging chads” mess. If they were hand-tabulated there’s the potential for human error/fraud and it would take a long time.
Probably any method would require enforced accountability in order for people to be very confident of integrity. And that would mean a lot of safeguards set in place, to get rid of the opportunities for fraud. Observers from both parties and video surveillance from the moment the door is unlocked to the moment the FINAL results are sent to the SOS (AND both parties, simultaneously) should be considered the bare minimum.
Real penalties for cheating will also be necessary, from prison terms of no less than five years all the way to hanging for really pernicious cheating. But this is all moot since the Republic is now dead and the captain of the titanic is setting to work embalming the mangled remains.