Michael Barone: Let's go back to paper ballots

Michael Barone: Let's go back to paper ballots:
"Mickey Kaus notes that the Netherlands is going to go back to conducting its elections with paper ballots.
"Dutch go old school against Russian hacking," he notes, linking to a Politico Europe story.
Kaus adds an appropriate shout-out to Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who has been calling for paper ballots for years.
Going back to paper ballots may strike many people, as it used to strike me, as retrograde.
Isn't it a lot faster to count electronic votes?
Isn't there a danger that paper ballots can be altered, defaced, and burned?
Isn't electronic voting cooler and more up to date?
But the arguments against paper ballots wither under inspection.
Speed of counting: Why do we need an immediate result? The press has exit polls, of varying and perhaps improving worth (Britain's was much better this year than in 2015 and 2016).
And speaking of Britain, it only takes until about 5:00am the night of election day, to have the results in for all (save maybe one or two) parliamentary constituencies. California, in contrast, takes four to five weeks to count all its ballots — California, the home of Silicon Valley!
The fact is that sacrificing a bit of speed for reliability is probably a good trade.

• The strongest argument for paper ballots is that they can't be hacked. 
• The second strongest is that there is an independent record of each ballot cast, which some computerized systems lack..."

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