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I'm under the impression that computerized voting systems are in no way standardized nation-wide (USA, at least). But your point still stands that it seems easier to hack a computerized voting system to commit large-scale fraud than to fraud with paper ballots.

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Yes this is true: federalism being applied to control of elections is probably good for election security. But there’s only a small handful of vendors and if an attacker was able to crack one of them they might be able scale the attack to many deployments of that vendor’s systems.

Not in a two party system. You really still only need to hack just one model of voting machines to steal the election, since the margins are so small.

The same goes for the paper ballots. You don't need to fix the vote everywhere.

Which incredibly difficult to do on scale, unless you rig the whole system. In which case voting is just a fig leave anyway.

With paper ballots you must make sure that most people at the voting stations are part of the conspiracy, which is tricky because all major parties will have representatives on each station. It’s possible you will get away with it in a few small places, but even that is hard.

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