Fair, I know that US elections are more complicated because there's so many elected positions to make a choice for.
I'm all for technology to help create ballots. You can have a touch-screen system that walks a voter through all the choices and prints a correct ballot, as long as the voter then manually takes this piece of paper, verifies that it says what he thinks it should say, puts it in an envelope, and observers watch him place the envelope in an urn.
I'm all for OCR systems that can rapidly scan and count a large number of ballots, your voter ballot creator machine can put OCR codes that make it easier to count as well, I don't care. As long as there's no identifying info on the ballot, it is human readable, and as long as the preliminary vote count is done manually. Later on you can send all your ballots to a central counting facility and OCR the crap out of it for every single elected position, that's fine.
The majority of them which happens to also be “enough of them to catch any widespread attempted fraud by printing ballots different than what the user picked”.
Force a time delay that’s long enough for a typical user to validate their picks before proceeding and you might bump the figure some.
I'm all for technology to help create ballots. You can have a touch-screen system that walks a voter through all the choices and prints a correct ballot, as long as the voter then manually takes this piece of paper, verifies that it says what he thinks it should say, puts it in an envelope, and observers watch him place the envelope in an urn.
I'm all for OCR systems that can rapidly scan and count a large number of ballots, your voter ballot creator machine can put OCR codes that make it easier to count as well, I don't care. As long as there's no identifying info on the ballot, it is human readable, and as long as the preliminary vote count is done manually. Later on you can send all your ballots to a central counting facility and OCR the crap out of it for every single elected position, that's fine.