is Diebold open to the public? Hell in today's society I wouldn't even trust a human, because no matter who the person is, if they volunteered to run elections in their district, they are a political person. And right now the political climate is very charged "NEOCON WARMONGER!" "LIBERAL DIMOCRAT!". And given the opportunity they can easily make votes disappear, or state different results, which get confirmed by another political person.

I mean I could understand the point, if the current system was infallible. But its not, so why not make the whole process easier on your average voter?

More importantly, ME! I'm not going to go vote, because I don't feel like standing for an hour in line, just to cast a ballot in a state where the result is already pre-determined because of demographics. I mean if you think about it, your vote only matters if you live in the 4-5 swing states, all others will go Democrat/Republican no matter what you do.

So open it to the public. After the election, publicly associate each password to a vote; also make people register for passwords and keep track of the number of people who register. Then after the election ask people to check that their password is associated with the vote that they made. Even if only a fraction of voters do so, it would be hard for any potential vote rigger to tamper significantly with the process.

And on further thought, it would be better to use public-key cryptography than plain passwords -- get people to encrypt their vote with their private key -- because then the public keys could be released before the election and it could be verified that there are the same number of keys and registered voters.

This would be dramatically more secure than the current system.