“The drawback was the lack of the paper showing each voters’ intentions that was available with other kinds of ballots.
“Diebold does ATM machines, and how many transactions are erroneous? Customers get a receipt, and somehow that could not be engineered into the voting machines.”
Yes, that’s the main thing. I’d like to see a receipt with my selections on it - both to verify I really did do the right thing, and should things ever go haywire electronically, to have something to give back to count votes the old-fashioned way (rather than voting again, banana-republic style).
What form of voting has ever allowed a copy of the ballot to leave the precinct? None that I know of.