> So there is a hard copy of the votes, and anyone can check. I think it's not enough to have the ability to do a count. It needs to be inherent to the system.

> So there is a hard copy of the votes, and anyone can check. I think it's not enough to have the ability to do a count. It needs to be inherent to the system. Think of it as being similar to double-entry book-keeping. Otherwise you can come up with situations like that described in the comment elsewhere here by DaviNunes, where a request for a check cound was denied by courts. In that election - it wasn't true that anyone could check. You'd get all the institutional protections of the current system. But you could minimise confusing/invalid ballot entries, and get a decisive election result for media purposes on the day of the election.