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In Pennsylvania there was a web tool via the department of state to check if your mail in ballot was counted.

I can picture several ways to do a hybrid (mail + online) election like getting a code in the mail, voting online, then being able to ensure your ballot was counted correctly by using your code.

It seems to make a lot more sense than having states count for a week.

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Randomizing would be even faster and easier, if you just want incorrect answers in record time.

Voting has a short list of maybe four easily stated requirements. Online voting “solutions” tend to solve one or two, forget about the others, and try to compensate on user experience.

> Voting has a short list of maybe four easily stated requirements. Online voting “solutions” tend to solve one or two, forget about the others, and try to compensate on user experience.

Right. In this case:

> then being able to ensure your ballot was counted correctly by using your code

This fails the voter anonymity requirement. There must not be a database associating each voter with which way they voted.

I second that. People could still count for weeks afterwards to make sure everything comes out on the up and up.

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