I was a party observer during the recount of votes for Attorney General in Fairfax county in 2013. That was a close election and the outcome did reflect the effect of the recount. Without physical, paper ballots, that would have been impossible.

Electronic machines are a needless complicating factor introduced into a process that already works, and has none of the reliability nor security issues that computerized equipment always has. In particular, as convenient as wireless connection might seem, there is absolutely no inherent reason why a voting machine must, or even should, communicate with anything by radio. Polling places never need more than a few machines of any kind. Examining them individually takes minimal effort and requires less complex technology. If we must replace paper with electrons (and I say we shouldn't even be doing that), adding any kind of wireless feature to that process is an absurd and pointless undertaking of risk.

Please keep the paper, and dump the computer.