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> A election only means something because of the consent of a large number of average people to abdicate their freedom to someone else based on what they feel was a fair process.

Even though paper voting is not perfect and has its own issues it offers several distinct advantages over electronic voting (whether online or offline):

(1) Paper voting and counting is inherently manual process. Therefore, election fraud (ballot tempering, stuffing, etc) is also manual and is hard to scale up.

(2) Because paper ballot fraud at scale involves many people it is harder to hide and easier to uncover and prove.

(3) Because of its simplicity, election observers can go deeper in the paper counting process and in some cases (e.g. Ireland) participate in counting and publish their own numbers providing additional independent confirmation.

(4) Chain of custody of physical objects (paper ballots) is easier to understand for an average people and easier to track for an average election observer.

(5) The last and the most important -- it is easier to audit and explain to skeptical and bitter supporters of the loosing party that it was a fair fight and their loss is legitimate. Without this last point everything else is meaningless no matter how objectively better it is.