> Being able to confirm that your specific vote was counted should be considered a basic human right. No, not if that means that many people cannot safely vote

> Being able to confirm that your specific vote was counted should be considered a basic human right. No, not if that means that many people cannot safely vote. At one time it was considered a right in many jurisdictions that everyone could know what everyone else's vote was, and votes were public. This enabled the local landlords to ensure that bad things happened to people who didn't vote the "right" way. Many vote-confirmation systems allow others to verify the vote as well, and the historical record makes it clear that this can be very dangerous. Currently we can't even verify that votes are counted correctly at all. We currently allow people to press buttons and then have an unverifiable machine report what its owners want the vote to be, without any reasonable way to verify it. It's great to want much more, but let's start with the basics. Having a way to verify that the counted vote is the actual vote is that basic.