If I had to steelman it, people think the counting should be fast and the verification is based on your ability to attend a polling station on demand. The trust

If I had to steelman it, people think the counting should be fast and the verification is based on your ability to attend a polling station on demand. The trust the machine, but not the person. My charitable interpretation of that is that they have a huge blindside for people who need to work crazy hours, look after kids, or for disabled people who need to do a lot of planning to get to a physical location they don't frequent. Or simply people out of town or country that day (soldiers on tour are a big one, my parents are rarely in town to vote). They are so distrusting of mail they forget that people can't all be expected to be in a single spot for a single day.