Why you don't want paper ballots

• Errors:
  • By individuals:
    • ambiguous ballot marks
    • unintended under voting
    • accidental over voting
  • By officials:
    • miscounted ballots
    • misplaced ballots
• The attacks:
  • By individuals:
    • placing known invalid ballot in box
    • ineligible voters
    • fraudulent absentee voting
  • By colluding officials:
    • substituting ballots
    • adding bogus (thus rejected) ballots
    • discarding ballots
• Costs:
  • specialized printing: average of 388 copies for each of 2616 precincts in King County
  • poll site monitoring
• Other (really, truely minor) problem:
  • time expensive counting