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RE: 11-Year-Old Hacks A State Election Replica Website In Under 10 Minutes At DEFCON
The voting machines I've used you have to fill in bubbles on paper which are then scanned so there is still paper as a backup. I don't know how all the other states work but I think it's pretty dumb not to have a paper backup.
indeed, that's how I vote as well, those machines are fairly secure too, in other places there is no paper record of a vote. That is pretty stupid, we are lucky that in real life few people are that interested in hacking voting machines illegally. It's the same thing that keeps us safe from mad bombers and people flying planes into things, it's super easy to do those things but there really are not many people who want to and that is what keeps us safe most of the time.
Plus the fact that, at least in most cases, it would take a coordinated attack of many voting machines to actually make a difference. Such a thing would probably be noticed. But yeah, having a paper backup is definitely the way to go.
luckily, we do have an army of elderly people watching our polls. paper ballots seem like the way to go.