Why is everyone ok with not having thier vote be private all of a sudden... If this is the case let's have open elections where you can see your vote was counted correctly and every vote is listed publicly with names removed but with a random key that you are given at time of vote.
I always wanted a system where your ballot had a serial number that you could look up and see if your ballot was recorded the way you voted. If you make the numbers obvious they can't really be used to sell votes and confirm because anyone has access to all ballots.
I can't say, "Hey, pay me my $500 because I voted the way you wanted for Biden. Check ballot 1123456 for proof." because I could have just searched through the ballot numbers until I found a Biden vote and used that number.
What if the system was corrupted to start repeating the same number for majority red counties? There is no way to tell that 1000 people didn't get the same 690666 number for example .
I always wanted a system where your ballot had a serial number that you could look up and see if your ballot was recorded the way you voted.
You still need to be able to verify the count. Looking up your vote in some database (that might not even be used for counting) doesn't verify anything.
If you can look up all the votes you can verify the count.
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