Reply #7: The second would work fine [View All]

provided both methods were linked.

ie:
you use a touchscreen to vote
after you verify it's correct it prints out a machine/human readable ballot
the individual vote tallies as well as total vote tally is incrementedy appropriately.
you drop your verification ballot in a slot that counts how many ballots have been dropped in.

At the end of the day if the total paper ballots counted and total electronic ballots counted don't match a recount of the paper ballots is triggered... if there are still problems they can be hand counted.

Could somebody mess with the software that counts the ballots so that the total counted is right but how they're counted is wrong?
Of course.
Somebody could do the same with the firmware that runs the optical scanner... or somebody doing a hand count could intentionally count a vote in a way other than it was cast.
Nothing is foolproof.

Electronic voting isn't any less foolproof than any other method.
It just depends on how it's done.