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There's a similar process in California, but you get a receipt. Does georgia offer a voting receipt?
by drb91 8y ago
There's a similar process in California, but you get a receipt. Does georgia offer a voting receipt?
- pazimzadeh 8y agoI voted in Missouri using one of these machines. You can print a receipt but you cannot actually have the receipt, you just see it slide behind some clear plastic.
- powvans 8y agoThe machines used in Georgia do not print receipts. Full stop.
- greglindahl 8y agoThe California receipt lets you know later that your ballot was counted- very handy when you mail it in or cast a provisional. The ballot itself is paper. Or, at least, that’s how my county does it.
- powvans 8y agoNo, there’s no receipt. That’s what’s so confidence eroding out it. All you have to show for your effort is an “I voted” sticker with a peach on it.
- phyzome 8y agoThank god they have the stickers, at least. The foundation of our democracy.
- dmm10 8y agoNo, GA doesn't provide voting receipts.
- Spooky23 8y agoReceipts are problematic as they enable compelled voting.
- 36bydesign 8y agoWhich is?
- bdamm 8y agoWhich is where someone pays you to vote a certain way. It follows that they want proof, so the receipt shows proof of your vote. I think it's also likely to cause harassment outside of polling places with gangs on sidewalks asking to see the proof that people voted for their candidate. You DID get a receipt, didn't you?
- _-david-_ 8y agoSeems like someone could get a mail in ballet and sell it to somebody else?
- kybernetikos 8y agoYes, this is why I also don't really like mail in voting despite it being so much more convenient. I've heard lots of stories where the head of the household fills in the mail in ballots for the whole family.
- Spooky23 8y agoOf course! Abuse of mail in / absentee ballots are one of the few frauds that actually happen. The elderly and tight-knit religious groups are particularly vulnerable.
- vanattab 8y agoI think he is referring to cases in the past where politicians and political parties would pay people to vote and require they bring the slip back to prove they voted for the right guy.
- czep 8y agoThe receipts do not show who you voted for, only the fact that you voted. They can only be used after the election to lookup online whether you voted, but again, it will not show your voting choices.