bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2012
I'm a little concerned now about how secret my ballot was. I called up my county elections office and asked about what they do with the machine marked ballot produced by the touchscreen machine. The clerk said that they were transported to the county elections office to be tabulated.
He offered to look up if it was counted, which kind of worried me. I gave him my name and he was able to look up which early election site I voted at and then that it was tabulated. So apparently they could trace that ballot (and all the votes) to me. He did say that he had no way to look up who/what I voted for because the tabulation system doesn't store that in my database entry.
So theoretically there's a piece of paper being archived with all my votes that can be traced back to me. I think they probably have safeguards. My votes were specifically noted on that marked ballot in human readable format, but my voter registration number was probably only noted in the QR code. I thought that whatever unique identifier in the QR code couldn't be traced to me.
He offered to look up if it was counted, which kind of worried me. I gave him my name and he was able to look up which early election site I voted at and then that it was tabulated. So apparently they could trace that ballot (and all the votes) to me. He did say that he had no way to look up who/what I voted for because the tabulation system doesn't store that in my database entry.
So theoretically there's a piece of paper being archived with all my votes that can be traced back to me. I think they probably have safeguards. My votes were specifically noted on that marked ballot in human readable format, but my voter registration number was probably only noted in the QR code. I thought that whatever unique identifier in the QR code couldn't be traced to me.