Jay Honeck wrote:
He "knows" how I voted the same way that the election officials "know"
how I voted with the paper ballots. Or did you think they can't look
at those, too?

I was once a volunteer for a local election and, no, you can't; it
was the old fashion system that works as follows: each voter picks
up a ballot from each candidate, goes into the little booth provided
for their privacy, choose one of the ballot and place it into the
envelop; discard or keep the other ballots, then seals the envelop,
goes to the location where the box is located; the volunteer in
charge of the box verify the person's voting card, and that it
matches the corresponding entry in the register, stamps the voting
card and checks off the name in the register, push the lever that
opens the slot in the box and the voter places the envelop in the
box.

Low tech and primitive, but privacy is protected, only people
entitled to vote can vote, votes can be counted and recounted,
i.e., the whole thing is traceable, everybody involved, from
the dumbest of the voters to all the officials and volunteers
involved can understand the process and how things works; everything
is done out in the open for anyone who want to see (including the
counting of the votes -- actually good fun, never lacks volunteers);

And it is surprisingly fast; it does scale pretty well actually;
the more voters, the more volunteers.

And no, none of the election officials know who voted for whom.

voted. Until mandatory IDs are required to vote, the system is an
utter sham.

the problem is that mandatory IDs will only prevent individual voters
from committing fraud; it certainly ought to be done, but I am
far more concerned by a system that makes it extraordinarily easy
for the party in power to fraud on a massive and global scale...

--Sylvain