[RandallFlagg]

Here's a curiosity question:
How hard would it be to get a database set up within every state so one could type in their voter ID number and a password to make sure that their votes are recorded for checking in the future after elections. I asked a lady when I went to early vote why we couldn't get a receipt or hard copy to show how we voted. She said it wasn't legal because we could sell our votes. I didn't understand how, though.

[The Old Hoosier]

You could take it to your "patron" as evidence that you voted his way, and then he could pay you for it.

[maryz]

She said it wasn't legal because we could sell our votes. I didn't understand how, though.

My memory on this is fuzzy (I wasn't there), but I seem to recall hearing that you used to get some sort of receipt, and Tammany Hall (maybe) would pay off the bribes when the proper receipt was turned in to show a "correct" vote.

[gdani]

I asked a lady when I went to early vote why we couldn't get a receipt or hard copy to show how we voted. She said it wasn't legal because we could sell our votes. I didn't understand how, though

Easy. Someone offers $$$ for you to vote a certain way. You vote, grab the receipt, produce it & collect the cash.

[staytrue]

How hard would it be to get a database set up within every state so one could type in their voter ID number and a password to make sure that their votes are recorded for checking in the future after elections.

that would be "illegal" because it discriminates against people who can not read, remember or type.

[cookcounty]

"I asked a lady when I went to early vote why we couldn't get a receipt or hard copy to show how we voted. She said it wasn't legal because we could sell our votes. I didn't understand how, though

You bring your receipt back to your "paymaster" and he pays you for your vote. You obviously never lived in Chicago.