I host a few legacy domains that are all but ignored by the world, except for internet seer. At one point when I checked, their crawler accounted for 80% of the hits to the site.
Of course, they're blocked now.
My current precinct does keep the ballot stub, and the scantron style ballots are fed into a machine that stores them until collected. I'm not sure if they are connected to me or not. One little surveilance camera and it wouldn't be too hard to figure that out though.
The problem with any of the electronic methods is that there's no practical way to verify that there hasn't been any tampering to the system short of being able to independently count the votes by second seperate trusted system.
The best solution I can see is:
Electronic voting to create an official scantronable ballot and a reciept that contains a short cryptographic checksum that can be given to the voter.
The electronics are for fast reporting. A scannable ballot allows for recounts and checking manually if necessary, especially in cases where the outcome is not within some percentage of what is expected by polling. And the checksum can be done in a way that it should be possible to check to see that your vote was recorded properly without revealing any of the contents of your vote.
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