Democracy Expires

From: (Peter Stickney)
Date: 3/7/04 10:43 PM Eastern Standard Time
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(Dav1936531) writes:
Actually, I meant ballot...not receipt....but was having a brain fart at
the time I wrote. A paper ballot produces a solid, irrefutable (mostly) record
of how a voter's vote was cast.

No, a paper ballot, (In the locked Ballot Box) is proof that _a_ vote
was cast. There's nothing in, on, or under a recorded ballot that shows how "A
voter's vote was cast". And that's thw way it should be. You wouldn't want the
Party Loyalty Squads shaking you down when you
leave the Polling Place, would you?

You've misinterpreted the meaning I was trying to convey. The paper ballot
proves a vote was cast and how it was cast (who was voted for), NOT which
individual voted for whom. Of course the secrecy of who actually votes for whom
must be preserved. This is so fundamental to the system I hardly figured anyone
could misinterpret what I wrote.
Dave