For example, about a year or two ago, I was speaking with a co-worker of mine who's a web developer. Extremely intelligent man with an excellent ability to see potential problems.
Him and I spoke at great length about developing software that would tally votes and send them to a central server. That way you could have an immediate total of the votes in real time. We spoke of encryption as well as a paper "receipt" that would be printed with a bar code and an indication of who was voted for. Two would be printed, one for the hand count and one for the person when they went home.
What's funny is that him and I spoke of this and while many details still needed to be hashed out, the basic idea was that voters could indeed vote electronically, AND the hand count would happen to verify the vote.
This was all done on commodity hardware with a small server at a central location. No special, exotic hardware was needed. If him and I can come up with something, there's no reason why we can't electronically vote AND have confidence that our votes are going to be counted properly.
People have fought and died for us to have the right to vote, we owe it to them and future generations to make sure that it's always "one man, one vote".
Travis
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