A major source of difficulty here is that virtually all the digital voting machines are total shit designs from a security standpoint. Recently a 10 year old girl at a hackathon broke into and "owned" one of those machines in a matter of seconds. They're that awful. To the point that election experts say we need to go back to paper ballots for now. Diebold's machines are particularly bad, but none of them are up to snuff.

Facial recognition is not the mature technology some want to claim it is. Famously, early this year, the faces of various public figures were fed to such a database, and mismatched to the records of convicted felons at an alarmingly high rate.

In any case, voter fraud is virtually a non-existent, invented problem. Voter suppression on the other hand is widespread and well-documented. Hacking the vote is, too -- both by foreign governments and by political opponents.

What the US needs before more misbegotten and badly executed tech designed by committee, are a few very simple things:

1. Automatic nationwide voter registration

2. Make election day a national holiday.

3. A requirement to organize and properly fund and staff polling resources so that voting never takes any individual more than 30 minutes. Heads should roll when people have to travel dozens of miles to vote, or stand in line for hours, or be turned away because someone can't get the machines to work or the doors open.

These three simple reforms by themselves will go a long way.

Or we could just vote by mail like Oregon does

Except that illegal voting has NEVER been a significant problem by ANY stretch of the imagination.

You're asking them to be efficient with our taxes? Look at the military as another example. If these politicians wanted our society to work at it's peak for the actual benefit for the people then it could. All they have to do is allocate funds correctly. Fat chance on that though.