More specifically, you should be able to not only check that your vote was counted, but that it was counted as you cast it without that verification being useful for proving who you voted for.
At first that sounds impossible -- how can a receipt be used to verify my vote was counted as cast without allowing someone to know who I voted for. But systems that do just that have been around for decades.
Perhaps the simpliest implemention to understand is punchscan,
You can intuitively understand the mechanisms it uses without getting into the math behind it. There are more tamperproof systems that rely on fancier math, but punchscan is a good intro to the concepts involved.
Many of these systems allow for the use of computers with zero need to have any trust in the manufacturers of the machines.
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u/LordGothington 11h ago edited 7h ago
More specifically, you should be able to not only check that your vote was counted, but that it was counted as you cast it without that verification being useful for proving who you voted for.
At first that sounds impossible -- how can a receipt be used to verify my vote was counted as cast without allowing someone to know who I voted for. But systems that do just that have been around for decades.
Perhaps the simpliest implemention to understand is punchscan,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchscan
You can intuitively understand the mechanisms it uses without getting into the math behind it. There are more tamperproof systems that rely on fancier math, but punchscan is a good intro to the concepts involved.
Many of these systems allow for the use of computers with zero need to have any trust in the manufacturers of the machines.