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It’s a great idea , though the counting machine becomes a threat vector .

Counting votes isn’t really that expensive . Certainly not compared to purchasing , maintaining and securing counting machine hardware

I get that we all get paid to digitize things , so paper seems antiquated , but for many applications it’s the best solution

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Yeah, and this solution results in paper ballots. You get three different ways to count them.

the opportunity to recount is not itself an adequate protection for an online counting machine. in my county for example, recounts are only triggered for close elections. they do zero auditing for normal wins.

The system needs to be secure in the primary case, not only in the audit case.

Now if you're saying the counting machine is offline, so that it's verified during the normal voting process, that would be more acceptable.

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