I suggest that your terminology is wrong. Voting is not the process of marking the ballot. Voting is the act of casting a ballot (marked, unmarked, vandalized,

I suggest that your terminology is wrong. Voting is not the process of marking the ballot. Voting is the act of casting a ballot (marked, unmarked, vandalized, etc.) into a secure pile of ballots therefore making it anonymous. In terms of voting security the digital scanning and counting is much more problematic than electronically marking of choices on paper.