For years, many in the election technology ecosystem have been promoting the implementation of e-voting systems that produce voter-verified paper audit trails (VVPAT).
What are the top benefits of paper audit trails?

For years, many in the election technology ecosystem have been promoting the implementation of e-voting systems that produce voter-verified paper audit trails (VVPAT).
Halfway to 2018, democracy stands firm to constant challenges around the world. Larry Diamond, one of the world’s leading democracy scholars, claims we have been going through a “democracy recession”.
Youth participation in elections has been regarded as low for decades.
Bot farms, fake news and data breaches have all been used to spread misinformation during some of the most important electoral processes in the last few years.
The revelations that Cambridge Analytica used the personal information of approximately 80 million Facebook users during recent elections has sounded alarms in the offices of election commissions from around the world.
Almost 350 million voters across Latin America and the Caribbean – close to three-quarters of all citizens in the region- will go to the polls this year.