Can Election Machine Software be fixed?

I remember when I started to vote and they had the older voting machines. You would walk into the place to vote, sign your name on a paper and somebody gave you a ticket that you had voted. Then you would wait in line and somebody would escort you in front of the voting machine and pull a curtain around you. You had to pull a lever under a candidate to cast your vote. The vote was not really not registered until you pressed a red button and the curtain swung away setting you free like you had become the wizard of oz.

Ok bad joke about the wizard of oz, but what was really funny is that the government being non-uniformity. By this I am talking about punch ballots in Florida. I thought the voting in this country had the same large metal voting machines .

Voting machine closeup that many people voted on and not a punch card. What is wrong with just placing a piece of paper with an “X” and put it in a ballot box?

So now instead of using the old voting machines or placing an “X” on a piece of paper we have the New Electronic Voting Machines since the 2000 election got very messed up.

Has anyone ever thought the punch card system should have been replaced with the old metal voting machines in the first place?

So now in order to turn to a new electronic machine that will cost states and tax payer’s
3.8 billion! Here is a document from NY DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) or Optical Scan Costs. First NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) had to come up with guidelines. NIST guidelines paper

So here are places that did a study of the new voting machines and they say they are vulnerable to attacks.

Princeton Study

Here is the article of 24 pages that tells of it is not full proof.
Princton paper for review

This document comes from a study from the John Hopkins University.
An article about this article.

This paper was on the NIST website and tells how they are set up prior to elections and are paperless. I find it strange that our government has audits for large businesses and like to see a paper trail or audit trail for them, but no paper chase for elections.

They had a movie in which comedian Robin Williams played a presidential candidate in “Man of the Year”. There was a mistake in this parody about election machines. Could this really happen in real life?

Discover magazine has an article as well that tells about that it can be tampered with.

Now we have a government document that talks about an audit or paper trail on the one they use in that state.

This PBS article tells about errors that have occurred on what the government deems as a fit machine.

This article Officials assure voters electronic results are reliable
This is another article almost the same but from AOL

With anything in society there are good things and bad things that can be associated with them. Here is what can be considered the top ten list.

So what are your thoughts and opinions about this? Do you think these these machines are safe, or do you think there is possibility it could have been implemented to soon with possible bugs?