The Handmaid's Tale

Why would a totalitarian dictatorship prefer computer banking to paper money?

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The use of computer banking allowed them to freeze and confiscate the women's accounts. A cash society would have made this more difficult to accomplish. Computer banking simply allowed the dictatorship to close the women's accounts and wire that money into their own.