No, the serial number can’t do that. The serial number would simply prove that it was an official ballot and not a xerox copy.
Once the ballot is separated from your hand or the envelope it is in it is not traceable to you...............
“Once the ballot is separated from your hand or the envelope it is in it is not traceable to you...............”
Unless the serial number is tied to you!
“No, the serial number can’t do that.”
If it’s an absentee or a requested mail-in, a serial number could do that. Record the bar code before sending, send it to a specific voter, have it returned, and match the bar code.
When I worked in H.R., I was amused when we sent out the annual “anonymous” surveys to the employees. Employees insisted they were anonymous. I asked, “Do ya SEE the bar code?” I was supposed to take the party line, i.e., that they’re anonymous. Couldn’t do it.