MAKE SURE TO GET YOUR PAPER PRINTOUT OF YOUR VOTES and CHECK IT. They're switching votes.
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What are you talking about?
I've never seen a voting machine produce a receipt for an individual voter.
I second that. I have even requested validation that my vote was correctly read into the machine, some indication after scanning through, that the candidates selected on paper, were read correctly, and that has never been available.
Part of a fair election is that no one can know for sure how you voted. If voters can be provided with proof of how they voted, that could open up a scheme where candidates can pay people to vote a certain way. "Show me your receipt that you voted for me, and I'll give you $X" Right now the best they can do is register people and drive them to the polls, but the pollbooth is still private and people can vote however they want there.
Granted, another part of a fair election is that the vote counters (whether they be human or machine) provide accurate counts. This is likely broken, which is why people want receipts. If this part were not broken, the receipts wouldn't matter.
I agree with you premise about receipt. I never used the word Receipt, meaning something like a printout that I could take with me. I only indicated that I was looking for some form of validation like a screen image of the votes read into the machine..