Better yet to have the results available at voter registration sites, libraries, by phone or Internet, or on diskette. This way you can also check that the votes add up correctly to the announced totals. There are other ways the system could work. This is the simplest. Seeing your own vote in the newspaper is a guarantee of accuracy no present voting system can match.
Voting is now on the honor system.
No ID is required to vote or register in most places. Identification is based on the obsolete idea that the election judges know each voter by sight, unlikely in our mobile society. Still it usually works. We want all procedures watched by election judges and the media. This system accepts only touch-tones, pulses, or dialing, not computer language.