Electronic and Postal Voting [via Collaborative Software Community Group]

Ideas to provide citizens with the convenience of voting from home, ideas
pertaining to electronic and postal voting, are broached.

After voting online, voters can print their ballots. Printed ballots can be
designed for purposes including rapid visual inspection by voters to compare
their printed ballots to post-printing on-screen contents. Printed ballots can
include cryptographic hashes of and other visual representations of voting
results, such as barcodes or QR codes. Printed ballots can include one or more
confirmation numbers, barcodes or QR codes which indicate or confirm each voting
event. Printed ballots can include the text of the ballots with voters' votes or
other text-based versions of voters' votes. Printed ballots can include voters'
regional codes, postal zip codes and voting district codes. Printed ballots or
the addresses upon envelopes can be recognized by post offices for free delivery
for purposes of concurrent postal voting. At vote-processing locations, computer
vision and optical character recognition can expedite the processing of printed
ballots; the confirmation numbers, barcodes or QR codes upon printed ballots
provide for interoperation with electronic systems at other locations. The two
systems, electronic and postal voting, can mutually secure one another.

Using desktop apps, web apps or websites, voters can make use of one or more
confirmation numbers, barcodes or QR codes to view or to confirm their
individual votes and to view voting results per voting location.

Hyperlinks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting



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