https://medium.com/@ATrigueiro/ask-for-a-paper-ballot-tuesday-6113353df4fd > We must recognize that political progress cannot happen when elections are not secure. If voting results are not verifiable, then getting citizen engagement is futile as moneyed power controls the outcome in the end. Control of the ballot box forces elected officials to serve the interests of those that control the tallying of votes. Corruption becomes the status quo, because one must participate to get elected. > The representative republic is broken in a fundamental way when corruption is the politician’s chief constituent. With so much power up for grabs every four years, there is no wonder that moneyed power would attempt to control elections. Honest elections encourage hard work by politicians, so that when the elections are held there are concrete accomplishments for voters to support.