I’ve always had the opinion that the electronic voting machines should only be used to generate paper ballots that the voter can inspect prior to be turned in for counting. Counting can then be done by another machine, with appropriate audit controls to ensure that the count matches the ballots.
An election without a paper trail and auditability cannot ever be trusted.
That should be a no-brainer. There's NOTHING that's done with technology that can't be hacked. It's incomprehensible that there is no paper trail (and I don't me chad-type ballots).
The other thing is I never realized that there isn't some kind of secret ballot at caucuses. A private voting process is central to our freedoms. What does a caucus do? It starts the presidential selection process with a system where voters are vulnerable to peer and family pressure, and there's no control over local manipulation of voters.
At least here in some parts of Gnu Yak we fill out a paper ballot then put it in the scanner...there is a paper trail, but I still miss the old machines, they were built like fortresses and you knew the count was right..