I'm not going into punch card machines. In the UK we write a cross in pencil on a bit of paper we can see and then put it in a box. As for auditing computer da

I'm not going into punch card machines. In the UK we write a cross in pencil on a bit of paper we can see and then put it in a box. As for auditing computer databases and software that is hard enough with computers you control but for elections the people operating the machine are one of the threats and the process needs to be verifiable by independent volunteers and the parties contesting the election.