Having worked as election officier in both Fairfax and Prince William County, my comment is based on experience. PAPER is better. In addition to the potential flaws of the machines, paper is faster. At key voting times long lines form at machines. This experience tends to discourage voters. With paper ballots it is easy to set up numerous privacy stations if needed. In this case the time that the voter actually uses the machine is just the time needed to insert the ballot into the machine, so long lines don't form. The paper machines are "smart" -- it will reject a ballot improperly filled out, e.g. too many votes for a specific issue, etc. One time when I was working at a paper machine, a vother (for reasons I don't understand) inserted a blank ballot. You should have seen his face when the machine shot it right back to him!