I've been in the IT world for about a decade now.

You know how the vendor for the phone banking software "dropped the firewall"? That sort of bullshit? Yeah. Imagine that with actual VOTES. And go look up the problems with diebold machines. Electronic voting software will be backdoored so hard, or put together by incompetent vendors who bid the lowest for the contract. And nobody's going to accept an open-source voting package, due to fearmongering.

Paper voting is good. It's tried and true and the methods for defeating it are harder to accomplish. If someone tries to dump or burn a box of paper votes, there's more evidence left behind. On the other hand, if you have a closed-source software setup for voting, it's easier to slip in an algorithm that tilts things one way or another, and you only have to get that backdoor into the software once. Basically, the convenience it gives to the voters for "not having to leave their home" also is the same convenience corrupt people trying to rig the election get...except the corrupt programmers don't just change one vote, they change as many votes as they want. There's no magic "audit trail" that gets set up in every new software program created; you actually have to program an audit trail into software, which means you can selectively choose what it actually audits, and what it just doesn't mention.

Technology is not a panacea; sometimes the old-fashioned way really does continue to work best when all factors are considered.

Sure, people who have a harder time getting out of work to vote won't vote. The solution is to make sure there's a federal holiday for voting, where things are closed and as dead as Christmas. It's "harder" for voters, but it's also "harder" for corrupt government to purposely screw with the legitimacy of the vote.