We have demonstrated that, for elections to be democratic and verifiable, ballot papers must be used and computers avoided.

But this doesn't mean we can use no technology at all! Infact both the voting and the counting of ballot papers can be technologically assisted:

• ballot papers can be voted:
  1. manually (by electors' hands) or
  2. by offline devices which print the voted ballot paper (the real one, not a simple VVPAT) following the directions given by each elector. Such offline devices must be located in the polling stations (for security reasons) and they can use video or audio to help electors with sigth or language problems. Each elector verifies that his printed ballot paper is what he wants and then he places it into the traditional ballot box.
• voted ballot papers can be counted:
  3. manually (by scrutineers' eyes) or
  4. by offline scanners, the so called PCOS

Making election of type 2+4 we use electronics at its maximum, while those of type 1+3 are the traditional electronics-free elections (manual paper ballot voting and counting). Types 1+4 and 2+3 are also possible ways to make safe and verifiable elections.

As shown only a very small amount of electronics can safely be used in elections: just a couple of offline devices are allowed: one for printing votes and another to read them! They can be, and surely they will be, computers. In any case it is extremely important that any device is used offline (not connected to any other computer nor network) because this is the only way we can be sure their results are not fraudulently remote-controlled nor monitored. Please be aware that off-line hardware can be hacked as well, as demonstarted in Optical scan system hacked in Florida

All the computer programs done to improve e-vote accessability can be used with paper elections. The only difference is that the casted votes are to be printed on paper instead of being transmitted to some other electronic equipment, but this doesn't change anything of the action of voting.