We have plenty of evidence that governing by asking a large, diverse population over and over about local issues just leads to exactly the sort of tragedy-of-the-commons that government is meant to reign in.

Having too many votes simply doesnt work, because the voters can't put in the required effort per vote to decide on a prudent course of action.

The only reason to switch off paper ballots is of you're running so many elections you're just influence laundering by pretending to be democratic when you're not.