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> Voatz’s website states that “a paper ballot is generated on election night” and is tallied “using the standard counting process at each participating county.”
by jimhefferon 7y ago
> Voatz’s website states that “a paper ballot is generated on election night” and is tallied “using the standard counting process at each participating county.” What that means is the voter’s vote is sent to the county clerk staff as a PDF, and the county clerk staff prints it out and puts it into the scanning tabulator.
?So at some point your vote is printed out on a paper, and scanned? Doesn't seem all that anonymous, for one thing.
- yum_tasty 7y agoAn anonymous id is attached to the pdf. Not the users specific name/information. "The county clerks were able to conduct a pre-tabulation audit (unprecedented in US election history) by comparing anonymized copies of the voter verified digital receipts with the marked paper ballots prior to feeding the paper ballots into the scanners for seamless tabulation alongside the primary voting system."
- jimhefferon 7y agoCan you say more? How do the clerks know it is a voter from their district without a name, or other identifying information?
- yum_tasty 7y agoThis is the Voatz blog response to the slate story. It's where I got the above quote from. https://blog.voatz.com/?p=997 https://blog.voatz.com/?p=997
- jimhefferon 7y agoThanks. I don't get the anonimization. I live in a town of 5000, and I wonder how many overseas ballots the Town Clerk sees. Total speculation on my part, but it would not surprise me if it was 1.