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https://engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/2009/01/return-paper-ballot/
A professor of computer science at the Whiting School and director of the National Science Foundation (NSF-funded ACCURATE, A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections), Rubin is extremely skeptical about the touch-screen systems used in Maryland and other states across the country. Rubin favors scrapping the systems entirely and returning to paper ballots.
I know I may sound like a Luddite for saying so, but most election security experts are with me on this: paper ballots are the best available technology for casting votes.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/
Simons was called a Luddite. At times, she was treated as just short of raving. “It’s not that I don’t like computing or I don’t like computers. I mean, I am a computer scientist,” she said. “Many of the leading opponents of paperless voting machines were, and still are, computer scientists, because we understand the vulnerability of voting equipment in a way most election officials don’t.”
Appel recommended eliminating touch screen voting systems and using optical-scan paper ballots instead. Under this system, in the event that the validity of the polls is called into question, a physical copy of each vote would have already been collected, allowing for recounts. Appel also recommended a mandatory sampling of said paper votes post-election.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/308537-the-power-of-paper
As a professor of computing and a historian of technology, I often think about how older technologies address present-day quandaries. In many ways, paper is the ideal voting technology. It creates an essential audit trail in the case of a recount. Paper also makes vote tabulations more accessible, participatory, and transparent.