Re:What a crock of shit (Score 1)

If it's impossible for the election authority to cheat the system... why do you even need this receipt?

Without the receipts (and some fraction of voters checking them), it is possible for the election authority to cheat undetectably, because the receipts might be the only evidence that the authority cheated.

I haven't seen that. But if so, why not address that issue instead of going off and arguing an argument that has nothing to do with the initial problem?

See Was the 2004 Election Stolen? I submit that we ought to address these problems by adopting Punchscan and publishing voter rolls.

Publishing voter rolls with plain paper ballots is not sufficient, because ballots could still be altered or substituted. This is known to have happened in the past, and most of the time that it happens we probably never find out. Punchscan makes it impossible to do this without being detected.

I agree that it is possible to make plain paper ballots sufficiently secure, but it would be very expensive to do so, and we would never be able to tell how much security is enough. Punchscan is a much better solution.