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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by twodave on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:15PM (#20760554)
1. Check in the voters as usual, but issue them a paper ID for the ballot they can take with them (either a printed receipt or a tab they can tear off the ballot maybe?).

2. Publish results to the public Internet using the ID as an anonymizer.

3. Anyone who wishes to report that their vote was improperly counted or not counted at all can simply present their receipt to verify their identity.

Why is this hard?

Edit: obviously there are complexities when it comes to people who either misremember their selections, but I also see no reason you couldn't also have a copy of your ballot emailed or printed out for you from the voting precinct.

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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by ApolloFortyNine on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:22PM (#20760642)
>obviously there are complexities when it comes to people who either misremember their selections, but I also see no reason you couldn't also have a copy of your ballot emailed or printed out for you from the voting precinct.

Someone called out above, unfortunately accurately, that a receipt with you voted for will greatly simplify vote buying. And with 30% of people not even bothering to vote, vote buying would probably be incredibly cheap.

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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by alexis_fr on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:21PM (#20760626)
Because votes could be sold. E.g.: “Show me your receipt to prove how you’ve voted for, and we’ll give you $50”
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by twodave on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:26PM (#20760683)
Can't people already do this with a smartphone?
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by sampleinajar on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:17PM (#20761221)
In the US, it depends on the state. Many states have policies or laws about taking pictures in the voting booth. There's quite a few articles about this from the 2018 election.
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by mszkoda on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:14PM (#20761196)
Absolutely and it happens, but not that regularly.

Polling places are extremely busy and people pull out their phones all the time. All you have to do is record you voting and you have the proof.

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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by vmarovic on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:24PM (#20761299)
What stoops the system from giving you someone else's id. From a person who voted just like you and registering your vote as it pleases under new id it wont give to anyone?
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