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Tell me if I summarize this correctly:
1.) Voter fills out a paper ballot
2.) The ballot is put in the recording machine. The selections that are read by the computer are shown on the monitor.
3.) The voter can either accept the results of the selections and press ok, or reject the reading the computer made.
4.) If the voter rejects the reading of the ballot, the ballot is destroyed, and the voter can fill out another one and try again.
5.) When the voter accepts the reading of the ballot, the computer records the ballot.
This would be fine with me. In my precinct in Alabama, we still use paper ballots, and we fill in the arrow that points to what we want to vote for. It's not all that hard to do. If someone wants to screw up voting, it's nearly impossible to prevent.
And for the record, the computer errors in Ohio could be caught when they perform the official count. The error that you mentioned was red-flagged b/c there was such a large statistical discrepancy that lots of people noticed it.
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