Re: It's total bollocks
"The bottom line is that a well-designed paper-based election is hard and expensive to hack without detection, with the costs and difficulty at least proportional to the number of polling stations."
But if an organization is big enough and determined enough (like a major political party or machine), then you still can't discount the possibility of insiders throughout the voting system as well as well-coordinated efforts to slip things through. Remember the Gilded Age. You also can't discount conspiracies of all the parties actually working in cahoots to subjugate the proletariat.