<human>: News and reports about issues with the voting machines keep popping up, for instance [this] from today.

So why are people even discussing political viewpoints, comparing plans, ripping at each others debate gaffe's and doing the whole election-dance if there's a strong uncertainty on if their vote will be actually counted properly? What are you going to do if the results are debatable but the machine record is the only counter you have?

Why battle over voter registration policy's, district boundary and dirt tactic if the fundamental mechanic of the whole thing is flawed? Why is there not the hugest shit storm ever about this? 

note: If you call 'conspiracy theory' then please include why you are so sure this will be no issue. 

edit1: spelling

edit2: most replies so far have read only the title up to the first question-mark and miss the point.

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: why vote if your vote might not be counted (and certainly not re-counted) and how do you handle that?