Remember how after the Florida election debacle "hanging chads" were blamed for everything? Remember how the narrative was that the problem was that it was hard for people to use the machines, and therefore the solution was bright shiny video poker voting machines? It was insane, as anyone who looked at the myriad of vote scams on the ground in Florida knew - and I had. Things have come full circle where the NIST bluntly states that electronic voting machines cannot be made secure.

Paper has its problems, but it is still easily the best solution to having a one way blind election system. That is, one where you know how you voted, and it can be checked, without knowing how each person voted. Electronic machines can only be made secure by breaking the wall of secrecy which is essential to what was once called "The Australian Ballot".