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The big advantage of paper for voting is the same as the reason the naive think replacing it would be an improvement; it requires the involvement of more people processing it, actually looking at all the votes. No matter what technological protections you put in place, you can't replace the difficulty of getting a large diverse group of people in on a conspiracy and keeping quiet, there will always be some way to cheat with a computer, which is inherently complex and opaque.