marcelgs

Why bother with voting machines at all?

There is no way to verify the integrity of the electronic count, neither for an individual voter nor at the national level. Hence, you'll need a manual count to be able to trust the result, which reduces the machine to an incredibly expensive pen.

Firstly, you don't get to see the record of your vote - it's a value on a flash drive, and you have no way of knowing if it's been tampered with. Also, since you don't have the machine's source code, you have no way of knowing if you can trust the software to record your votes correctly.

Then, when the votes are counted, you can't observe the process - all you know is that the drives from all the machines are plugged into a black box that spits out the outcome of the election.

In addition, electronic voting has single points of failure; for example, a single dishonest person could throw the entire election by rigging the tallying software. With manual voting, you'd need to secretly bribe tens of thousands of people.