It's an open hardware system, so we can have transparency and trust in the system. It's meant to counteract the elections are not safe propaganda, among other things.

Fully digital systems are a bad idea because it makes it too easy for people to sow doubt. We don't need to open ourselves to that as a society.

you can search my handle if you like, your comment is a weak deflection because... I'm not sure what you are hoping to accomplish with it, but it does ring my state actor manipulation warning bells ;] For a reverse uno card, your PhD work is really interesting and far more meaningful than mine was.

The article has little statements sprinkled throughout that are easily used to undermine trust in an election. Sometimes the articles do not need to promote the idea themselves, but the larger manipulation machine does better when they can point to more "evidence" of "hackable" machines.

At the same time, I do not disagree with the absurd waste. This is why I shared a link to an interesting project that can help with this. Paper only voting, with human tallies, is far more expensive than machine tallying and also more prone to error.