I agree that if the electronic voting machine is just helping you print out an easily legible copy of your ballot, which you then verify for correctness and tak

I agree that if the electronic voting machine is just helping you print out an easily legible copy of your ballot, which you then verify for correctness and take to another machine to have it scanned for counting, that's a good thing, for the reasons you give. Not only does it help with auditability since the physical record is more standardized, it also probably reduces the error rate of automated counting. What I'm not sure about is whether that is actually the way it is done for all electronic voting machines.