> Why can you not just do paper voting with simple ballots, like in Canada?
Some places do - voting is handled at the state and county level, not federal. For example. I vote on paper in the county where I live.
> You've had some problems with your ballots 16 years ago, and we're not sure why you haven't fixed this by now.
Those were paper ballots, what you see now is largely an attempt to avoid similar multi-day challenges and recounts due to hanging chads and ambiguous markings on paper ballots.
Some places do - voting is handled at the state and county level, not federal. For example. I vote on paper in the county where I live.
> You've had some problems with your ballots 16 years ago, and we're not sure why you haven't fixed this by now.
Those were paper ballots, what you see now is largely an attempt to avoid similar multi-day challenges and recounts due to hanging chads and ambiguous markings on paper ballots.