Here goes democracy. Imagine recounts that are literally impossible to verify.

[Rik Meleet]

Paper ballots are MORE prone to falsification than e-ballots, but it requires a completely different set of tactics/resources etc to do so; thus a voting machine employing both makes successfully adjusting election results orders of magnitude more difficult.

For a town/city the size of Nijmegen (180.000 inhabitants) to falsify an election on paper you need to involve a couple of hundreds maybe 1.000 people to help you.
To falsify an electronic election you'd be able to succeed with about 10 - 20 people at max.
I'm not willing to take that risk.

 

[JerichoHill]

Rik,

That's actually incorrect. You need very few people to pull off vote rigging in a paper ballot. And it is much more difficult to detect a small amount of vote rigging in that system because the natural error rate is much higher than electronic format.

Also, given safeguards inherent in our post-election analysis, we can detect such problems fairly quickly.

American voting rights are in good hands...