[js1138]

It is interesting that people "vote" via lotto machines -- millions every week -- and there are so few charges of fraud or incompetence. One key might be that lotto machines print a ticket with a serial number, date, time, and validation number.

[weegee]

You can still be asked to show ID at the counter to get your lottery ticket, you have to present legal currency, you are being filmed in virtually any convenience store, and the guy taking your cash/ID has no stake in helping you to get free tickets. His store is billed for each ticket and he cannot influence the actual winner. He's happy when a customer wins because he gets a cut from the state, but he does not root for some customers more than others.

Crooked voters/officials need to be stopped from permitting ballots that are "genuinely" counted yet granted for false purposes.

Also the penalties for those who cheat at Lotto are higher than for those who cheat at politics. Few ballot stuffers are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.