Very good question. There are some stations that use touchscreens.
In such stations a paper receipt may be available for the voter. But what good is such a receipt? Is each voter going to turn their receipt over to a poll watcher who is independently tallying the results?
The persons committing the fraud don’t care. They will use the confusion of the moment to cover up.
Remember, once the votes are gone, they are gone.
No court case can reverse a fraud outcome, why?
Take for example the 2004 stolen election for governor in WA State where Dino Rossi (R) won the first ballot by less than 1%, and won a second automatic recount by less than 1%, and then lost a third hand recount by 128 votes (where bags of ballots suddenly appeared from nowhere).
A court case of this 2004 election was quickly convened and concluded in January 2005. Rossi’s people discovered more than 1600 fraudulent votes. BUT IT DID NOT MATTER! It did not matter because there was no way to know which way the voter voted.
ONCE THE VOTES ARE COUNTED AND TURNED IN, THEY ARE GONE! IT’S A DONE DEAL!
The fraud must be detected and stopped BEFORE the fraudulent votes are transmitted or reported to the State’s election center.
If I recall correctly, something similar happened in the 2008 Minnesota Senate election which sent Al Franken to the Senate.
Franken was behind by about 700 votes on election night. But recounts proceeded, and the courts got involved. Eventually the Minnesota Supreme Court declared Al Franken won by about 325 votes.
In any recount situation, the Democrat gains votes. That’s why whoever said this was right — that if it’s not close, they can’t cheat. On the other hand, in a close election, they can find a bag of votes in a car trunk, get into hanging chads and ballots marked improperly, and declare that the mismarked ballot was really an intention to vote for the Democrat.
Have any Republicans ever gained votes in a razon thin election where it goes to a recount?
Even in the Gore/Bush thing in Florida, Al Gore gained over 1000 votes before the recounts were shut down.