It makes no sense to have election-night ballot counting in the hands of a single vendor and single election official (who is usually partisan).   There is a way to restore high confidence to these vote-counting systems, regardless of your party preference.

Does anyone remember how the Apollo missions got to the moon using a "majority vote" computing system, where 3 computers all crunching the same problem had to agree before firing the thrusters?

What if each political party fielded its own version of the ballot-counting software, plus a non-partisan professional team fielded its own version?...with every version processing every ballot?

If any of the software's had a bug, it would immediately surface through disagreement with the other codes's results....ballots that led to discrepancy would be steered into a discrepancy pile, to be closely analyzed by every sw team.   It would be impossible for a political party to "mickey" their software without being exposed -- therefore none would attempt to tilt the processing in their favor.

You wouldn't need separate machines...the softwares would take turns processing each ballot as it chugs through the optical reader.  If all agreed on the votes cast, the ballot would be considered final -- not open to dispute.   This system would greatly streamline recounts, as it would only entail reprocessing the discrepancy ballots.

If you think a MultiParty Comparative Election Software should be the standard for future elections, you can advance this idea by signing this petition.