Regardless of what the machine does or the results it generates, the paper ballots are the physical record of the actual election.
Securing them and their chain of custody is the most important part, and New Hampshire has been dropping this ball repeatedly for longer than I've been writing about politics.
Towns are ultimately responsible, but the Secretary of State decides how they must do it. The Voter Integrity Group (VIG) and organizations like the Government Integrity Project (GIP), CNHT when Ed Naile was the chairman, Rich Girard, and websites like this one are the only real forces exposing fraud and working to secure your elections.
HB1541 was a valiant effort and maybe the best they could do at the time, but we have an election in three days, and that's not where we landed.
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