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Real paper ballots are a must: N.Y. needs to get rid of touchscreen voting machines
(www.nydailynews.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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I like the way my area does it. Electronic machine, prints an easily human readable ballot that you then review and physically turn in. Only change I'd be tempted to make would be if it printed a copy for you to keep, but I can think of issues with that idea.
yeah you can’t have a ballot that someone else can force you to keep to prove how you’ve voted… anonymous, individual, untraceable ballots are essential
though perhaps that’s could be mitigated if you could print as many ballots/receipts as you like so you can submit your real one and keep a fake one… then anyone with no care can keep their real one, and anyone being coerced can keep a fake one
i totally agree this is the way to do it: the machines can even keep tallys for early results reporting, but the paper ballots are the only thing that actually matters. that would make subverting the electronic systems useless. it’d also be a good sanity check on the count
Well, your hypothetical is more realistic than my hypothetical. I just didn't want my voting record in my home with the way things are currently going just in case. I didn't even think of coercion.