In Pennsylvania, Claims of a Rigged Election May Be Impossible to Disprove
This, not in-person voter fraud, is the real threat to our democratic election process. Paper ballots have a couple of strong advantages: 1) The voter can confirm that their vote was recorded as they intended. 2) There is a paper trail that is difficult to falsify which can be used to confirm election counts.<p>Sure, there are problems with a paper ballot system, such as the fact that ballots can be misplaced or destroyed, but we&#x27;ve given up a lot for &quot;convenience,&quot; which shouldn&#x27;t be the top priority when it comes to our voting process.<p>If nothing else, our voting machines need to produce duplicate paper receipts, one for the voter and one retained within the voting machine so that electronic results can be verified.<p>Edit: as has been pointed out in the replies there are good reasons not to give people a paper copy of their vote, so it would be preferable to only produce a single paper receipt that the voter can view but which is retained within the voting machine itself.