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Re:US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-att... by umvi on Monday August 13, 2018 @02:49PM (#17752555)
> at all over good old fashioned unhackable paper.

I think regardless of if paper or digital is used, we need an anonymous verification method. i.e. I can confirm that my vote was cast and tallied for X candidate. And if you got your whole community together, you could prove there are no injected or altered votes.

The receipt of a vote could be a UUID that you can then use later to verify your vote, for instance.

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Re:US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-att... by skrause on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:46PM (#17753508)
The verification method is called public counting. Here in Germany you can stand next to the ballot box all day to verify that nobody tampers with it and then attend the public counting of the votes.
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