@Cyber Liberty@mystery-akShe doesn't know how paperless machines work. She is talking about voting machines in a polling place. The machines without paper ballots, have a disk the judge and alternate judge take out at the end of voting day, and take to Central Counting. There is another count of the ballots deep inside the machine and no one can get to that disk except a technician from that machine company. That is the backup of votes that were cast in case there was trouble with the accessible disks - in case of a recount or charge of voter fraud, use the disks from inside the machine.
When we had ONLY paper ballots, the hue and cry was paper ballots are terrible, too easy to change the paper ballot, toss them away, etc. States wanted to get away from paper; We had to have machines that would be more secure than paper. Machines at a polling place are not hooked to the internet. Tabulating machines at Central Counting could be hooked to the state to transmit numbers and that could be hacked by smart computer people.
The whole problem here is not about paper and machines, the problem is PEOPLE - BAD PEOPLE.
