[dragonwriter]

> Why do you think that paper ballots cannot be faked? Why do you think counting paper votes is better?

Faking paper ballots is easy; getting any substantial number of fake paper ballots into the count in a system with the kind of controls associated with paper ballots virgin hg in the US, OTOH, is not.

> Just because we can query some info about ourselves, doesn't mean anyone else can.

Yes, it does. That is, it means that the information is permanently more to your identity. It means it's subject to vote buying/retaliation, because people can choose you into proving your vote and can reward or punish you for it.

> That is clear malicious intent.

That doesn't mean it can't be done.