Just use paper, that's the answer. It works fine. There is simply no need at all for a machine to be involved.
> You get fast preliminary results
A non-problem. Exit polls can do this if you really need it.
> You get fast preliminary results
A non-problem. Exit polls can do this if you really need it.
A machine prints your ballot with your choices in large, human-readable font. You can read it before you drop it in the submission box.
A QR code on the same page digitally encodes your choices.
You can get near-immediate results after the election, and everything can be perfectly audited and accounted for.
But in the end you're dealing with people who point at a bunch of large but near-empty counties being red and only a few (very high-population) being blue as proof of a "landslide" in a race where their guy won with less than 50% of the votes cast going for him. They don't understand really basic shit. There's not much sense in going out of your way to get through skulls that dense. Whatever you do, if their leaders say "jump" they'll say "how high?" If their leaders say "fraud!" they'll say "yeah! Hang the Democrats and their collaborators!" Bend over backwards with even more safeguards, and they'll just keep being upset over the same stuff if the right people tell them to.
I guess you "care about improving people's lives" by imagining a world where everything is awesome and pretending that it's real!