They want to have the option to cheat and have plausible deniability 

Simplest explanation 

 FAIR BUT ALSO OPEN SOURCE ELECTRONIC MACHINES WITH A PAPER RECEIPT YOU MANUALLY DROP IN AN AUDIT BOX IS A FINE COMPROMISE. 

 It’s insane that in my 100% mail-in state, I can’t see an image of my scanned ballot with the associated vote metadata 

 Wait, there is a state that doesn't have in person voting?? 

 I think counties have to provide at least one in person location, but Washington has been mailing every registered voter a ballot since 2018 AFAIK 

 Sure, many have that, 6-8 I think. But they all still allow voting at a polling center, mail, and secure drop off I believe.

Not sure I have ever seen one that doesn't have in person at all. 

 True. I’m ok with that. 

 Isn't that just a expensive pen at some point 

 I don't see why we can have machines with a tiny open source app running assembly, or c, or maybe python that is verifiable by thousand or millions of programmers that it is only counting.  

 Alaskans fill out a paper ballot that is fed into a scanner that counts it. They keep the paper as a backup. It's not like that everywhere? 

 I think in many places you don't get to keep anything and you don't see a running vote total - so you just have to trust/hope that the machine is adding everything up faithfully 

 I love the based innocence of Alaskans. Living in a world we all seek to return to 😁