Vote verification online (Score 1)

I agree that Federal registration of all voting machines and vote counting machines is necessary. The Nevada Gaming Commission Standards for Gaming Devices sounds like a workable model.

Consider an untamperable module, call it the "VoteBrain," that controls the basic identity functions of every voting machine and every vote counting machine. The Votebrain would generate the Registered Machine ID, the date, time of day and GPS location. This information would be displayed on every screen and be printed on every receipt. Malfunction requires replacement with a new certified VoteBrain. (How could you verify that the VoteBrain is uncorrupted?)

Every vote will be identified by a voting machine generated number and the Votebrain info, shown on the computer screen and recorded on two identical printed receipts. One copy is for potential recount, deposited in a box on exit from the polling station, and the other receipt is kept by the voter. (Would the sequential number violate voter privacy? Would non-sequential numbers reduce verification?)

Vote tallies are published on the internet and in county courthouses by state, voting district, polling place, voting machine id number, date, time of day, and voter sequence number.

Thus:
1) Lost voting machine data or vote counting discrepancies will be obvious and traceable.
2)Voters will go to the internet or to their county courthouse to see that their vote, as identified by machine id and sequence #, was counted correctly.
3)Voters' organizations and the media will provide volunteer monitoring of the receipts compared to the result data.
4) If enough vote receipts don't match the database, a recount is required.

One question: What is the remedy if a state is convicted of inaccurate vote counts?