1. paper trail to authenticate your electronic vote

2. voters must prove who they are via drivers or state/national ID.

No one will ever be completely satisfied as long as we let the states and their bureaucracies run elections. Not would everyone be satisfied if we did it with a national system.

Yeah, now they admit it when the Repub years are about over, they have stolen everything thing they could, and made a huge mess to dump into the laps of whoever comes next (Dems, of course).

In their rush to avoid a repeat of the controversy that plagued the 2000 presidential election, and to meet the requirements of Congress's hastily mandated 2002 Help America Vote Act, states and counties flocked to electronic voting systems they hoped would eliminate hanging chads and other flaws inherent in paper-based systems. Six years later, with another presidential election less than three months away, many e-voting systems are fraught with security glitches, and the technology has yet to prove itself as the solution voters were looking for.

Such systems could allow voters and poll workers to place multiple votes, crash the systems by loading viruses, and fake vote tallies, according to studies commissioned by the states of California and Ohio within the past year [. . .]

One of the reasons e-voting systems turned out to be such a failure is that the only people involved in checking these systems were the vendors, who wanted to sell their technology, and the local election officials, who were ill-equipped to understand the security issues. . .