While I agree with you that the ballot should be physical, electronic counting defeats the purpose of transparency. Counting should also be manual in the presence of representatives of each candidate. Marking of ballots and voter eligibility checking do not present any issues if done electronically.
Maybe one way to address the issues of electronic counting would be to have parallel counts by each candidate (and their reps) using their own hardware and software with a manual count in case the electronic counts of every candidate do not match. But this means each candidate has to bring their own counting infrastructure which is prohibitive.
Maybe one way to address the issues of electronic counting would be to have parallel counts by each candidate (and their reps) using their own hardware and software with a manual count in case the electronic counts of every candidate do not match. But this means each candidate has to bring their own counting infrastructure which is prohibitive.