Electronic voting isn't a bad idea. Paperless electronic voting is a bad idea. I will never trust voting machines that do not print and store a paper ballot.

Electronic voting isn't a bad idea. Paperless electronic voting is a bad idea. I will never trust voting machines that do not print and store a paper ballot. But it's practically impossible to change or remove votes with a machine that does store them. Once the votes are recorded (on paper), you only need to do two things: - ensure the paper count matches the electronic counts - ensure the paper count matches the count of voters You can also spot-audit or fully audit the results to ensure that the tallies for individual candidates match between paper and electronic tallies.