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Have my vote printed to a roll of paper, like a cashier's counter roll. Make sure that it shows through an opening in the case, so I can verify, and then rolls
by cies 7y ago
Have my vote printed to a roll of paper, like a cashier's counter roll. Make sure that it shows through an opening in the case, so I can verify, and then rolls further (beyond the opening) so I cannot see it anymore. This is a way to store the votes "write only". The rolls are both human readable and machine readable (OCR is nothing new).
The only problem with this compared to voting forms is that form fall into the bin unordered, so it is harder to link a vote to a person.
Just an idea.
I would not trust ANY system that stores my vote on a re-writable storage medium. I know there are some crypto/blockchain tricks that may help, but that's so hard to audit for lay people that I prefer the paper roll any day.
- henrikschroder 7y ago> The only problem with this compared to voting forms is that form fall into the bin unordered, so it is harder to link a vote to a person. Uh, that's a good thing, you don't want to be able to link a vote to a person at all!
- lippel82 7y agoThat's why he said it was a problem.
- henrikschroder 7y agoAh, I misunderstood what he was saying! I read it the other way around. Thanks!
- fsh 7y agoWhy even use a computer then? Paper ballots and hand counting work perfectly fine. If for some reason you desperately have to use technology, optical scanners with statistical verification is probably not that terrible. One issue is that a significant part of the population won't be able to understand the verification part though.