A logical way to return to a simple and effective voting system:
- One day voting. No electronic devices (including cell phones) will be allowed.
- Photo ID must be presented and verified.
- Voter role books are signed by voter.
- Signature is immediately verified by existing voter role registry (separate area).
- Paper ballot is then filled out by voter and placed in secure container.
- Votes are counted on premises by citizens.*
- Citizen counters will be selected the same as jury duty members in advance. They are subjected to Voltaire in order to weed out the unqualified.
NO ELECTRONIC TABULATORS USED.
We need something similar to this folks. What do you think?
If someone uses a unique pen their vote could be matched to their info that way. Imagine this nonsense of giving sharpies vs ball points out. Probably a good reason to do non-partisan voter registration.
Also people will end up drawing or writing on their vote if they know it's going to be posted online.
Could fingerprints be seen on scanned ballots? I think not. But how much quality would be needed to match the tears?
That would not be consistent.
With the tear it would be something that you were going to do anyway.
Random ---- but not too random....
Years ago I had a Mavica floppy disk camera.
IIRC it could put about 20 decent quality pictures on a 1.44MB floppy.
Good question.
If you limit your color palate you can compress the shit out of it.
My ballpark guess --- 1MB storage per ballot
You could store a million ballots on a $50 terabyte drive --- EASY
With some tweaking you could get 10 times as much.