Old Dude, I am a fan of yours and I hope I am wrong, too. I'm afraid that the evidence is coming out about the last two elections and it looks bad for voting machines.

Paper ballots that are optical scanned are no different than the e-voting machines. As long as a machine is involved in the electoral process, there's too much danger in corruption of the election. High tech hackers can come from both sides of the aisle.

it may be that the elections taking place in Iraq or Afghanistan are more honest than here in the U.S. Paper ballots are being used there.

One way around this problem might be Instant Runoff Voting which would give a third, fourth or fifth Party a chance. This would be more difficult to corrupt.