okay now we are getting somewhere!
I knew I needed help here but I wasn’t sure what I was doing wrong; Even after you asked that question, my initial response was to think “No, my ballot had my name on it. It came with a sticker label pre-printed”
But now that I think about it, that wasn’t on the ballot itself, was it. I’m a little bit hazy on this fact, but if true, it’s an amazing point and I wonder if I’m the only one who needs this fact pointed out to them.
So if ballots themselves are not distinguishable, we have no way to audit the system and the results. There is no way to go back and look at ballots themselves and validate their authenticity.
In THEORY, the ballots have a 'number' printed on them that is recorded by the Polling Station Staff. However, the machine that counts your vote does not keep track of that number, so there is no way to prove that the votes it 'recorded' belong to you.
We have the secret vote in the U.S. Once the voter has ID'd him/her self the ballot is taken and considered 'cast' and then registered. Thus there is no way to verify individual ballots. The only way to guarantee the integrity of elections is to hold election officials criminally liable. Here in Fla we are seeing that that is not ever done.
The Dems are represented by Joseph Stalin; we are represented by Barney Fife.