That sounds like a far better set of priorities than commonly gets raised in discussions like these. Another benefit of electronic voting systems that mark and

That sounds like a far better set of priorities than commonly gets raised in discussions like these. Another benefit of electronic voting systems that mark and/or verify voter-verified paper ballots with the voter is allowing the blind and illiterate to vote alone and retain their privacy. Sighted literate voters take for granted that they don't have to reveal their vote to anyone else. This doesn't get any discussion or support in the article (quite the contrary, there's some language about how such machines are second-best to voters marking their own ballots). The paragraph discounting "BMDs" (ballot-marking devices) contains no pointer to evidence to back the assertion that voters don't check their machine-marked voter-verifiable paper ballot. This is solved with voter education -- tell voters to verify their ballots no matter how they're marked. By the logic of this claim, it's worth pointing out that humans make mistakes writing on paper too. So better to have the voter verify their own ballot. There's also no evidence given of "the dispute-resolution mechanism" for a malicious or errant machine mismarking a ballot. This excuse seems particularly reaching to me as all roads lead to the same outcome -- the voter should spoil the ballot and get a new ballot. No proof is needed to justify spoiling the ballot because in the end they're not committing fraud. Even if the voter spoils multiple ballots, that's not a big deal. I'll need evidence to see that this is a serious concern but the article presents none.