Anything networked is a fail. If machines were offline and had an extremely simple, embedded code base, and all they did was to mark (highly visible, perhaps sq

Anything networked is a fail. If machines were offline and had an extremely simple, embedded code base, and all they did was to mark (highly visible, perhaps square) marks on a paper, 100 to a line, of vote tallies to be humanly summed, it seems like it would reduce error. There could still be punch card ballots that each person verified were entered correctly (ie directly read) to have a better trail as well. But there isn't really a need for a computer for that. It could all be analog/mechanical.