'Can you count on voting machines?'

Uhhh no....

The voting machine issue is the most retarded misuse of technology I've heard of in quite some time. There's one easy way that hasn't really been implemented at all and it makes everyone happy:

Use touchscreen voting machines to print out voter verifiable paper ballots(no networks, no electronic counting). You then take your printed ballot to the lockbox and blam you're done. You have a big easy touchscreen interface that isn't confusing. No hacking possible, no hanging chads, and it gets counted the old fashioned way.

Why is this simple-fucking concept escaping every Supervisor of Election, legislator and e-voting machine vendor?

Also, why aren't the vendors being sued for their ultra-shitty, sometimes non-verified voting machines? If a state spends a few million on some barely functioning machines, you think there should be some recourse short of not using the fucking machines. Or how about the people in government who are making piss-poor decisions to buy these non-working machines... Why aren't these fuckers getting fired by the handful?

Paper. Fucking. Ballots

Technology can be such a WONDERFUL thing

Any device you can fuck around with, with a cell phone, is not a viable voting machine.
...unless you're a Bushie.