Actually the biggest problem at this point is that measures to detect hacking of any kind are severely lacking.

>All it would honestly take is a requirement that all voting machines print out a receipt of the vote. Then you could drop that into a box on your way out, and someone counts those votes to make sure they line up with what the database says the final vote was.

That would work, but sounds like a very expensive way to achieve the same level of functionality as a red pencil.