Voting machines (was The Internet of criminal things)

To be fair, the current crop of voting machines is a terribly naive implementation of the concept, wasting an enormous opportunity for improvement. They basically do nothing more than the human tallyers can do, except faster - and with less auditability. But there are algorithms that [promise to][1] allow the vote to be both secret and auditable, by anyone who can count, not just the tallyers. But to do that you need to implement actual cryptography, not the half-arsed "add 1 to this variable" machines we are offered today.

[1] I'm not a cryptographer so me not being able to spot any flaws in such an algorithm doesn't mean anything, obviously :) Anything that wants to be used in actual elections need to be first exposed to intense scrutiny by the security community. Which is he opposite of the current state of affairs.