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E voting could be made safe if the machines printed the users choice on a little slip of paper which was then put into a box, to be counted once the election is over.

You could have the machines tally the votes a few seconds after the last poll location closes, but the election result isn't official until the votes has been counted.

Any trust in the machines at all and you might as well have the election take place in NK.

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An obvious optimization to that process is having voters fill out an optical "scantron" ballot, then run the ballot thru a scanner and lock the paper ballot away for later spot checking.

You can network the scanners in whatever crude or advanced way you'd like.

This is what Wisconsin has done for about a quarter century.

This is exactly how voting works in Venezuela. That way you have two vote counts (electronic and physical) which need to match up exactly when counted. This ideally makes it harder to commit a fraud than having just one.

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