While the idea of electronic voting is not a new one, most implementations are far from ideal, rushing means legislative, procedural and technical issues that come with risks spanning from low trust in elections to even cancelled elections. The solution, validated during last national elections as a scope-limited pilot program, allows for a more gradual approach to electronic voting with the introduction of electronic smart ballot boxes, a hybrid system architecture that preserves the paper ballot as the legally authoritative artefact, yet enables near real-time aggregation with strong auditability. and serves as an early warning system for anomalies. As the current legal voting system still relies on paper ballots, so does our solution. The design separates voter identification from vote interpretation and counting and enforces data minimisation by avoiding long-term storage of individual vote results. This is done by maintaining integrity, traceability, and resistance to manipulation while mitigating ballot-secrecy leakage. This approach attempts to satisfy mandatory conditions, such as maintaining vote secrecy required by both national regulations in the case of countries such as Romania and similar EU electoral mandates. While the use of such a system proposes many challenges, a successful implementation can bring significant improvements to electoral systems around the world and serve to remove barriers in the public perception of electronic voting as a less safe or private form of voting.