Are the Electronic Voting Machines to be Trusted?

Can the Electronic Voting Machines that we use for major elections to be trusted? It's one of the most interesting concepts. There's no way to check because voting is supposed to be annonymous. I remember during the last presidential election, I wrote a short piece of fiction for a writing class about someone hacking the voting machines and then someone else hacking them so that the numbers weren't just off, they were off twice because someone inched them one way, not realizing that someone else inched them another way. You have to wonder, how hard would it be?

So I'm a big believer that elections are going to have to change in the next 20 years. Where it will go, I have no idea. Maybe here in the United States we'll have compulsary voting like they do in Australia. Maybe we'll be able to vote by cell phone and the days of going somewhere particular to vote will be over. Or, more likely, maybe we will vote on the internet.

It would be interesting what would happen if when we voted at an electronic voting machine if the data were then sent to two different entities and then we'd see if the numbers matched.