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There's also a difference, because our elections typically have only a few races on them. In other words, at the federal level I only vote for the candidates in my writing. Typically four to six options.
In a us election, there can be a ballot containing choices for many different levels, including judges, district attorneys, and so on. Not to mention they might have several referenda on the same ballot too.
I could see that being much more complex on paper, making electronic voting attractive.
Still that's a solved problem. You just use different color coded papers for each item that has to be voted on.
I really don't get the US's difficulties with paper votes. It's so easy to understand literal preschoolers can understand it. I know because our children voted on meal choices in preschool every time an election happened in Germany.
It's super transparent. You can just watch the counts or even count them yourself if you doubt them.
It's fast. If you have enough voting districts counting takes an hour or two. Maybe a few more if you have a big district with many different issues to vote on.
Almost everyone can understand how it works. Even many literally mentally disabled people. I find this to be the most compelling argument for paper voting. You leave noone behind. It's a super simple concept to grasp that reaches every citizen. But with electronic voting you need to have a degree in computer science to understand that it is not transparent at all what is happening inside the machine.
I'm guessing you're a Canadian that was using voice-to-text with your device's language set to "US English".
In American English, "writing" and "riding" sound the same. But not in Canadian English. Or British English, but for a different reason.