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A $2000 pencil that replaces tons of paper instructions printed in several languages and prevents double-voting and other mistakes may still be valuable. Not so much in democracies where you cast one vote every 4 years, but in America where you can have a dozen every year or so a voting machine can be useful.

A computer with $5 camera that can tally a paper ballot per second grocery-store style is also useful because you get accurate results in half an hour instead of a day later. Poll observers can't count that fast, but they can video the counting and review it later.

We can safely and effectively use computers as much as we want on either side of the ballot box.