A suitable uninterested entity maintains a registry of voter ID numbers -- one for each voter. The number is known only to that entity and the voter. Each voter votes online before the close of election day. From election day on, any voter can verify that their vote wasn't altered, and anyone in the world can determine who won the election, because all votes are posted online.
Verifiable Electronic Voting
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Comments (6)
ATM machine voting would be better, if you don't have an ATM card you probably shouldn't be voting anyway
Interesting idea, but who would that "uninterested" entity be? The government? Ugh.
I do not want the government or any other entity knowing how I (or my voter ID #, in this case) voted.
It would be too easily twisted to suit somebody's self-interests. Too easily influenced, even if it was supposed to be a neutral 3rd party.
Perhaps the neutral third party could be a U.N. organization that performs this same task for any country, the only stipulation being that when working on the US election, no US citizens would be allowed to participate.
If a case of voter fraud is discovered, that person's vote could be removed from the tally by the uninterested entity.
While it is, on the surface, a great idea, I was alarmed by the uniform California primary election results - up and down the state, despite wide differences of politics between various precincts.
This ONE primary brought McCain from last to first among the Republican candidates - inexplicably !
I just do not trust that computerized results are even now free from manipulation. Election fraud and corruption would be even easier if there were NO physical ballots as evidence of citizens' votes. ...
I agree -- that's why we all have to be able to do our own personal recounts.