Wired Magazine took a stab at something similar a few years back, where they suggested an ATM-like voting interface, including a nice "paper trail" that's all but essential for any decent electronic voting system. But I also very much like the ideas in this NYT article from last week.
And they don't even call out the problem on the sample ballot where the ovals in the first column appear very close to the ovals in the second column, and people might be inclined to fill in the wrong blanks. But the improvements are spot-on, especially when it comes to the referendums. What a striking "before and after."
Voting should be dead simple. It's worth it to spend a little time to make sure that's the case, instead of just doing things the same way as they've always been done.
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