Electronic voting machines should just be electronic card punchers.
Input your vote, the machine punches your card, you verify it, and feed it into a machine built by a second manufacturer, which electronically counts and securely stores the card in tamperproof cases.
sorry, coconutt2000, your idea makes too much sense
it will NEVER pass bureaucratic scrutiny
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Good system design. The other problem with these machines is that they need to be very cheap, because nobody wants to stand in line behind a single voting machine, and you can't afford a lot of security bells and whistles when each polling station needs 20-30 of them and has a limited budget. By contast, polling places with paper ballots have many stations (basically a chair and a privacy screen) where ballots are filled out, but one ballot box where they are stored. In your analogy, you'd have lots of cheap "electronic" card punchers and then one or two more expensive (and hence better built) electronic ballot boxes to count/store them.