The way that elections are policed and votes counted shouldn’t just be free of fraud, it should be free of any suggestion of fraud. There’s not much doubt, to put it mildly, that current voting arrangements in the US are not meeting that test, but you don’t have to be a fan of tin-foil headwear to think that e-voting is not the answer. Here’s a good piece on the topic (written in response to e-voting proposals now being considered in California) and a solution from the Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds. Reynolds is right. Paper ballots are far from perfect, but they are better than the alternatives.