It is not clear why so many people are so concerned to get electronic voting "right" when there is no obvious reason to have it at all other than to speed reporting of the outcome. Manual voting using paper ballots with optical counting, if desired, satisfies the requirement quite well, including quick answers. Manual counting would take longer, but arguably be more transparent. There is absolutely no requirement that returns be complete enough by the 10PM or 11PM news to project a winner; no harm follows from procedures that were (almost) fast enough to project national election winners with decent accuracy before the advent of voting machines.
Recounts, if needed, can be handled the same way and will take no more than about twice as long.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
