Paper ballots matter if there is a trusted chain of custody and reliable mechanism to count them. It is looking less and less like that will be the case.

GrapheneOS does allow you to turn it off. It has a permission switch for your phone sensors. I don’t know if there are other versions of android that allow the same.

The mRNA vaccine has a shockingly low rate of side effects or adverse reactions. Nearly all of the negatives were less severe versions of symptoms and impacts from COVID. So even if you were impacted by a negative side effect it was likely you were still better off vaccinated than not.

Banning it has nothing to do with the reality, and everythinf to do with their ignorant and dangerous beliefs.