Mostly agree, but paper ballots are expensive to administer and count and we currently don't like to spend very much on our elections. Also, you still need a system for the disabled that ideally also preserves secrecy - not everyone can hold a pen.
Coming from a country with sane election practices, paper ballots don't cost anything but volunteer time to operate and there is no barrier to participating. On accessibility, we have printed papers each with a name on them that we secretly stuff inside an envelope. A blind person who didn't get Braille papers or prepare their envelope on their own can ask the officials (multiple volunteers from a plurality of parties) to read the papers for them so that they can remember the order.
Secure, anonymous voting for the disabled is a big reason we have so many electronic voting machines. It was a big part of the Help America Votes Act. There are many vendors with solutions. The AutoMark is a popular one -- it can enlarge type or even read you the choices and let you make a selection by blowing in a tube.
There are many systems for the disabled -- it was a big priority of the Help America Votes Act, which is what prompted this wave of computerized voting machines. The Auto
And the contracts for these machines are what, cheap? I've be interested to see a source for the contention that paper's actually more expensive -- not saying you're wrong, but I'd have guessed paper is cheaper with all of the volunteer labor involved.
