Electronic ballots, well implemented (in the open) and well administered would actually be the absolutely most secure and tamper-proof system at the local level

Electronic ballots, well implemented (in the open) and well administered would actually be the absolutely most secure and tamper-proof system at the local level, because the computer has no inherent reason to miscount, unlike the people who volunteer to be poll workers who are often the most partisan voters of all. Of course such a system will never be implemented because doing so requires the cooperation of those in power including those who stand to lose from such a change, so it is in the pile of things like real lobby reform that just about every citizen (who isn't a lobbyist or directly benefiting from the corruption) can agree should happen but never will.