Self-confirmation for voting: it would work like this...

[DesEtoiles]

Every voter is assigned a unique, secret number.

When you vote, you get a printout documenting how you voted. (Aside - it's a given that this verification would have to be difficult/impossible to forge.) And it's kind a nice momento to keep for posterity.

Every vote is published on-line - with no names, of course, only the voter's number or code.

Then each voter could confirm his or her vote on-line.


A mandatory post-election audit would link each voter code on the published result to the real voter (to be certified by an independent accounting firm).

[MikeNY]

1. Knowing our overlords...

They would have Arthur Anderson doing the election accounting. But seriously, I would like to see this happen, but I am a cynic. To find out how our election is rigged you need to look no further:

Bob Urosevich
American Information Systems
Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S)
I-Mark
Global Election Systems, Inc.
Diebold, Inc.

Prominent Republican control over 80% of the vote