If your precinct uses Diebold or any E-Voting device...

[ck4829]

Make your own receipt.

Here's how to do it.

Take a piece of paper with you into the booth, vote for who and what you want, write down how you voted and then have an official sign and date it. You should probably fold the paper to provide confidentiality.

We should then send it to a local county office that looks at the votes and see if there is a discrepancy.

[leveymg]

1. Most voting officials won't know what to do with your request.

It's not even clear whether they have the ability to match your name with your vote in most places.

Of course, that would be easy to fix nationwide, if Congress had wanted to do that.

[eomer]

2. Interesting idea, but it has fatal flaws.

If you send your receipt to a local county office, they will not be able to check whether there is a discrepancy. If they could they would be violating a basic tenet of our election system - that your vote is secret.

Another problem with a receipt that you carry out of the polling place is that it could be used as proof in a vote-selling scheme.

So, paper ballots is the solution. A receipt won't do it.

[mduffy31]

3. Optical Scan ballots

That is what we use here and I think that they are great. It makes it easy to count votes quickly and has a PAPER trail, and are easy to use, if you can mark a straight line you can use them.

[elehhhhna]

4. google "stickers optical scan ballots" and be very afraid.

[Fly by night]

5. A mandatory random manual audit of ballots would reveal stickers....

... as they did in Ohio. Then treasonous evidence for violating the integrity of the election would be apparent, as would the remedy.

Treason is a capital offense.