Verify your vote

[gnihcraes]

emailed items have been received and my son's vote is valid now. Glad the system appears to be working properly and timely.

2016 Jefferson County General Election

11/08/2016

Your county accepted your ballot, and it will be counted

[GilpinGuy]

I'll be dropping ours off tomorrow. Fully armed and prepared for the jihad attackers, of course.

[fitz19d]

WTF i dropped ours off saturday. Still don't show received.....

[fitz19d]

Called weld. they have mine but not wife, dropped off same time.... on hold as lady looking into it.


They had no clue so finally said she can go and vote in person again. Sounded like somehow flagged her possibly as able to or something.


I was a little paranoid after seeing these things only monitored by 2 retiree's. Forget who I was talking to be was supposedly saying some places were unattended pretty much except for camera on the box. He might be full of shit, but not encouraging that they can screw up losing ballots like that. (Wasn't rejected, just shows that it's still "active" and out there)

[2112]

Nice, thanks.

[Dave]

Mine finally said it was received and will be counted.

[TRnCO]

My wife verified hers, mine, and MIL's yesterday after my BIL verified his and found it not counted, so he has to go vote in person now. He mailed his in, so not sure where or why it didn't make it to it's final destination.

[wctriumph]

Awesome, mine and my wife's have been accepted and will be counted.

[KestrelBike]

Here in Virginia, I guess there's not a way for me to verify my vote from this morning. I bitched about it to the lady at the station, too. Basically, I fill in bubbles on a paper sheet with a pen, then that gets fed through a scanning machine. All that I can see from there is a number tick up by one to see that my vote "counted". No confirmation or receipt available of my ballot values/choices.

What they need is a paper receipt printed with a serial number that has the ballot choices itemized. From that point afterward, anyone can lookup any serial number (think the tracking numbers on a USPS priority mail receipt) on a centralized website that has every single vote value with corresponding serial number tallied in a giant list. That way, every single person can check the votes, and check their own serial number for accuracy.

eta: I suggest this because "don't worry, your vote counted." means jack shit to me.

[DenverGP]

One of the extra concerns when implementing a voting system would be a country where you could be shot for voting for the "wrong" candidate. If you had a piece of paper that showed your vote, someone could make you show it at gunpoint and you could be executed for it.

Some electronic voting systems in use in the US do create a paper summary "receipt" of your votes, and you can visually verify it counted them correctly, then you put that paper receipt in a container at the polling place. The electronic votes can later be compared to the paper receipts in the event of a dispute, but you still get the instant numbers back from the electronic system.