I have been a bit worried about this as we go to software driven voting machines. I think it might behoove us to move back to paper ballots. Stuffing paper ballot boxes requires physical presence in most cases and should be relatively easy to detect.
I have been a bit worried about this as we go to software driven voting machines.
I'm not worried about software-driven voting machines, I'm worried about machine-tampering, particularly with touch-screen machines with *NO* paper audit. As for going with a paper ballot, I'm not sure that is all that secure, either, given the accusation of ballot-box stuffing and voting thrown-out ballots in mail-in systems.
What I would like to explore is the use of a paper system in which you use your computer (or company computer, or school computer, or library computer) to prepare a printed ballot, and then take that ballot to the polling collecting place. The design of the ballot is that it's human-readable using OCR typeface, so that the voter can proof his/her ballot before taking it to the voting place and depositing it in an electronic ballot box. Couple that with voter ID paid for by a tax on campaign contributions, and you have something.