No need to wait. If a ballot is generated with a number that can be used to figure out the identity of a voter, that is the whole story.
They say the number is for facilitating audits. But the only legitimate audit is of who votes. Audit the hell out of -who- voters are, that is fine. But you do not need ballots to do that, just voter attendance rolls. Audit the hell out of participants who showed up. And match that number against the number of ballots that were cast.
But a system that allows you to identify a voter from his ballot is corrupt. No excuses.
Not really necessarily for removing secrecy. Ballots are printed either beforehand, or on demand. In either case, you have a few ballots fanned out and the voter randomly chooses one. That way, the ballots themselves may very well be serialized to facilitate audits. i.e., you know that ballot #332 was cast in this particular polling location, but you don't know who actually filled it out.
I’m dense within a sea of words and salad. You’re condensed explanation makes a little break through sense.
I was thinking a ballot number properly associated with my name, on Election Day, would work in my favor and serve to simplify or expedite a search, if a fake mail-in ballot represents I already voted.
It causes my Election Day ballot to either be; 1) adjudicated, or 2) made provisional. The fake mail-in ballot is already resting among the stuffed & already- counted ballots.
It seems like it would be easier to find the name and the exact numbered ballot as evidence. Idk. Am I too left-brained?🥴