[danaris]

In New York State, we have exactly this: optical-scan ballots. We fill in the bubbles of the candidates and issues we support with a black marker, then personally feed them into a voting machine that both securely stores and automatically tabulates them. If they needed to be hand-recounted, that could easily be done.

The one significant improvement I would prefer in this process is verifying on the optical-scan machine's screen which options you have voted for, with the option to retrieve your ballot and fix it if anything shows up wrong.