Here's Ed Felton with a more elegant discussion of the verifiable voting problem I mentioned yesterday: see his Phonecams and the Secret Ballot.
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Not so fast. In fact, the screen that shows you the options, and then the recap of your choices for the ballot, then gave you an option to go back and change any and every vote. There was no summary page shown you could photograph after the vote was irrevocable. So all you’d be able to prove was that you’d checked for Kerry, not that you didn’t uncheck later and swap votes. I say its still not provable to the point of seeking financial gain for the choice…