[NonValueAdded]

Understood, but that would not stop the losing RAT politician from having a bunch of people show up with the tickets. Also consider how they can violate the secrecy of the ballot with the driver of the bus of homeless instructing them to return with their tickets showing a straight party vote before the smokes and bottles of MD20/20 will be distributed; or the union boss; or the employer. I understand you meant only good things with your proposal but past threads have itemized fraud schemes revolving around a vote receipt that make it a very bad idea. There is ONE way that an ATM-style receipt could be used, though. The voting machine spits it out, you get to view it to be sure your vote is properly recorded, and you deposit it in a ballot box on the way out of the polling area. Then a chain of custody is maintained and there is paper backup. But why spend the extra money to turn electronic voting back into optical scan?

[MineralMan]

You're probably both right. I do like a verifiable second way of counting, however. I mistrust a pure machine count that has no separate verification.