Why is it that some of the people worried that electronic voting can be corrupted rush to argue for paper receipts? Do they seriously think that computer programmers willing to compromise the electronic vote can’t figure out a way to print one thing on paper and record something else in the computer?
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Because then you can audit the computer’s vote count against the paper count, and if there’s a mismatch – you know something went wrong.
But how would you do that? How would you know the paper vote was any more correct than the electronic vote. Check after each person votes? So much for the secret ballot.
The voter would see the paper, confirm that’s who they voted for, and leave it at the polling station. The receipt doesn’t have to include the voters name.
More info on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_Verified_Paper_Audit_Trail