Diebold, Why Is It So Hard to Make a Counting Machine?

Why would we put our electoral faith into counting machines that seem to have an odd problem of counting improperly. Yes, there is a bit more to the machines than counting, but basically that's what it does.

What the voting machines should do is request your social security number. This will ensure you are eligible to vote. Then the vote is tallied, saved in a secure local database and a larger state database, a receipt is printed for proof of your vote. As optional, but good feature it could also print out a record of each vote at a secure location.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't a machine like that be simple enough to develop and maintain? The source code of the machines could even be available to an oversight committee. With a little oversight and simplification in the process, I would think this sort of system would be simple enough to run while relatively secure.

So, Diebold get up off your asses and make counting machine that works properly or we'll have to replace them with abacuses, which seem to be much more reliable.