The New York Times has an excellent editorial outlining ten things we can do to improve elections in this country. They include such obvious measures as allowing a holiday for voting, improving wait times, insuring audit capacities for all machines, and so on. Read the thing to get it all.
Nothing will come of it, I suspect, because not enough people in this country seem to care whether our elections are fair and transparent, and too many politicians stand to gain from the continuing ability to cheat.