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Re:My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania by g00gler on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:48PM (#25048738)
In Pennsylvania there was a web tool via the department of state to check if your mail in ballot was counted.

I can picture several ways to do a hybrid (mail + online) election like getting a code in the mail, voting online, then being able to ensure your ballot was counted correctly by using your code.

It seems to make a lot more sense than having states count for a week.

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Re:My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania by jpttsn on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @04:26PM (#25052179)
Randomizing would be even faster and easier, if you just want incorrect answers in record time.

Voting has a short list of maybe four easily stated requirements. Online voting “solutions” tend to solve one or two, forget about the others, and try to compensate on user experience.

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Re:My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania by MaxBarraclough on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:36AM (#25069149)
> Voting has a short list of maybe four easily stated requirements. Online voting “solutions” tend to solve one or two, forget about the others, and try to compensate on user experience.

Right. In this case:

> then being able to ensure your ballot was counted correctly by using your code

This fails the voter anonymity requirement. There must not be a database associating each voter with which way they voted.

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Re:My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania by jeffbezos982134 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:28AM (#25059702)
I second that. People could still count for weeks afterwards to make sure everything comes out on the up and up.
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