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I wish that we would abandon the concept of all-in-one electronic voting machines and instead incentivize ballot printers. They could have a happy touch screen

I wish that we would abandon the concept of all-in-one electronic voting machines and instead incentivize ballot printers. They could have a happy touch screen UI that is easy to localize, and then print out a human-readable paper ballot for the voter to review and then drop into a physical ballot box. And you could have one machine with a special printer to produce raised-character printing for blind voters to verify. All the advantages of a computer UI and very few of the disadvantages of the DRE voting machines.

r00fus 10y ago
The electronic voting machines used by many districts are not only insecure, but run by former felons (link from 2003!) [1]. The only reason I can see why we use voting machines run by criminals is that the powers-that-be want it that way. No amount of ineptitude can survive for 15 years without a small group benefitting immensely (and then selling that access). [1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031218/0933248.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031218/0933248.shtml