It's just as easy for unscrupulous poll workers to stuff a conventional ballot box as it would be to "fix" the computers. That's why the combination of both would be best, and simplest. I won't go into all the ways you can successfully secure a software system against abuse. It does seem odd that people who think nothing of running a credit card transaction online suddenly become spooked about computer voting.

Alcaray is right that parts of the current system are wide open for throwing close elections into the courts, which is where some politicians prefer to have them. The electorate is too stupid to know what's good for it anyway, right?

The reason I say you don't have to make a big deal out of it is that a couple of simple fixes would go a long way to eliminating most fraud.

Remember, you just need a system reliable enough so that the average voter believes, based on the facts, that by and large the will of the people is reflected in the vote. There has never been a voting system that was at 100 percent.