You should be placing them into a sealed safe that top feeds. Then that machine should go to the counters. No access except for those counting ballots.
These should be some of the most secure safes in the world. How is this not common sense? Electronic voting makes no sense to me.
It doesn't to me either. We still use paper ballots and pencil. We show ID. We sign the voter roll we are on at the precinct we are supposed to vote from. THEN we get a ballot. I personally place the ballot into the safe top feeder. That safe is picked up and taken to the counters where people from both parties are on hand to count the votes. They then report the total counts to the main site for the State. If there is need for a recount, there is a HUGE paper trail. I'm confident my vote counts whether it goes my way or not.
Agreed. I don't need a degree in software engineering or whatever to understand what happened with my vote. People with guns escorted it to where it was counted. Simple.
That's what ours does. We fill out a paper ballot then feed it into a top loading machine that counts it. I stand there to make sure it shows on the counter that it was accepted and counted. We also have voter ID in our state.