EVERY ballot should also have a printed timestamp on it.
It should print:
Date & Time,
Ballot Location,
No. of ballot scanned that day. (ie. 0003709) The 3,709th ballot cast in THAT ballot location,
County Name,
State Name
This should be hard printed on each ballot that comes out of the machine...OR..if it's a paper ballot to start with, then simply have it stamped (like a time-card gets stamped) just before you drop it in the box.
Keep all these hard copies even after the election. Not that difficult to figure out.
You can't put a fingerprint on the vote. The vote has to remain anonymous.
You could keep a fingerprint as part of the record of voters that cast a vote though ... if it's done with that purple ink that is impossible to wash off for a few days, then you'd also have a way to insure that people couldn't vote twice. I suspect a lot of scummy Rats use voter registrations of felons and others very unlikely to vote for cheating. If you'd have a means to identify people that have already voted and voting is in-person only on Election Day, then the purple ink on the thumb would ID those that already cast a ballot.
There are ways to authenticate a cast ballot though using blockchain. That's the way this needs to be done. You don't need to know who cast the vote ... all you need to know is that a verified person showed up and cast the vote being counted.
EVERY ballot should also have a printed timestamp on it.
It should print:
Date & Time, Ballot Location, No. of ballot scanned that day. (ie. 0003709) The 3,709th ballot cast in THAT ballot location, County Name, State Name
This should be hard printed on each ballot that comes out of the machine...OR..if it's a paper ballot to start with, then simply have it stamped (like a time-card gets stamped) just before you drop it in the box.
Keep all these hard copies even after the election. Not that difficult to figure out.
Should be fingerprinted too after youve voted.
You can't put a fingerprint on the vote. The vote has to remain anonymous.
You could keep a fingerprint as part of the record of voters that cast a vote though ... if it's done with that purple ink that is impossible to wash off for a few days, then you'd also have a way to insure that people couldn't vote twice. I suspect a lot of scummy Rats use voter registrations of felons and others very unlikely to vote for cheating. If you'd have a means to identify people that have already voted and voting is in-person only on Election Day, then the purple ink on the thumb would ID those that already cast a ballot.
There are ways to authenticate a cast ballot though using blockchain. That's the way this needs to be done. You don't need to know who cast the vote ... all you need to know is that a verified person showed up and cast the vote being counted.
good point ty