I can’t understand the ‘take a picture of your ballot’ either.
Lots of states that’s just illegal.
And proves nothing if it’s legal.
Taking a picture of my ‘ballot’ would take a picture of a touch screen. That’s it. No proof my vote was registered as a vote for this or that particular candidate.
It’s gaslighting to suggest taking a picture of a ballot will negate vote fraud in any way.
Agree with you. Taking a picture of the screen doesn’t mean the voting machine posted the data to its internal counters correctly, i.e. screen shows vote for Trump then software “glitch” posts a vote for Hillary on every nth vote or whatever trigger is used. Everybody is happy and none the wiser. There is nothing to reconcile the voting machine total if a recount is requested. So the voting procedure needs to be changed to trust but verify.
So why doesn’t the software be upgraded to print out a traditional paper ballot, verification code, and time stamp for a voter to check for accuracy. Then a voter can verify the ballot before placing it in a traditional ballot box to be counted and reconciled to the machine totals, and if a recount is required the paper ballots can be used as verification of the machine count. Under this scenario, the voter is only using the voting machine to create an automated ballot for himself that he can verify is correct before placing it in the ballot box (remember, face up like you are reading it).
Of course this would result in additional cost for the paper and ballot boxes, and more effort for the election judges and clerks. But what to hell, when has that ever been an issue with government.
Finally, I know this procedure would be called racist because the voter has to read and verify the ballot he printed and find the ballot box on his way out the door.
As a retired software programmer and IT consultant for many, many years that my two bits.