Electronic voting could be fine , but they need to add something to it . The machines should count the vote , and then upload a scanned image of the paper ballot to a database accessible to everyone . So a recount can be performed by a team of individuals . You could actually go look up the results for irregularities , yourself . There should also be separate machines meant just to count voters . So if the votes don ' t match the voter count , then we immediately know there is a problem . It seems silly to go back to paper ballots exclusively . We just don ' t live in that world anymore . We should just figure out a better electronic way with multiple failsafes . Add security by transparency . Though maybe I ' m not accounting for some problems .