This all came about because there was a rush to judgement after the 2000 Florida election, and concerns about hanging chads and dimpled chads and the fact that computer punch card voting machines don't give perfect results. So a decision was made, helped in part by the Help America Vote Act, that computerized voting machines are what we need to get the most accurate vote count.
The consensus even among some Republicans after Florida was that there are problems with the punch card type systems or the old fashioned voting machines where you pull the levers behind a curtain and vote that way.
So there are unintended consequences with these new machines. Maybe some prefer lack of any paper trail or recounting ability.
While the punch cards aren't perfect, let's remember that there was hardly any shift in the Florida recount. The first vote count was very accurate. On Election Night 2000, Bush won Florida by 1,900 votes. After all the hanging chad dimpled chad nonsense, the official vote count showed Bush ahead by 537 votes. So about 1,300 votes out of 6 million cast were reversed by Democrats eager to find as many hanging chads as possible. Percentage wise, it was a miniscule change.
the easiest and most reliable and verifiable method doesn't use electricity. paper ballots.