What's wrong with voting receipts?
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Voting receipts are a really, really bad idea, and here's why:
When you vote, your vote is secret. The secret vote is essential to protect your freedom from coercion and protect the system from vote buying.
Someone can threaten you to vote a certain way, or else. But as long as your vote is secret, you can tell them "Yes, sir" and then vote however you choose. If they can't look at your ballot, they can't find out how you voted.
Electronic voting machines change this picture because they're impossible to validate without a voter verified paper trail. So people suggest, "We should have it print out a receipt. You can take it with you and know how you voted." Wired's illustration takes this to the extreme, with online vote verification, win/loss record, and tracking numbers.
But once you've got receipts, you've opened the system to coercion and vote buying, because it's possible to check up on people. Bad, bad idea. Your vote must be kept secret.
How should electronic voting machines work, then? There must be a paper trail, and the voter must see the paper version of their vote and sign off on it. But then the vote should be placed in a secure, secret ballot box in case of a recount. There should be no identifying information on the paper version of the ballot. Essentially, what we have now is a printed optical scan ballot.
Some also suggest doing spot recounts of paper ballots to ensure that the machines are counting accurately.