[Non-Sequitur]

...and why shouldn't I be able to connect to the GA state website and see who I voted for?

Because other people could connect to the GA state website and see who you voted for. Georgia, or someone who works there, could sell your name to people who might be interested in seeing who you voted for so that they could sell you something. Are you really that trusting?

[hobbes1]

There is ZERO reason that these things should not be as reliable, and reciept printing as an ATM machine.

[College Repub]

I have a line of novelty currency products that I sell mainly to republicans. I'd purchase this data if it were availible :)

[Naspino]

Georgia, or someone who works there, could sell your name to people who might be interested in seeing who you voted for so that they could sell you something. Are you really that trusting?

They already have this service -- you can connect and see your polling location when you registered and the last time you voted. Just doesn't show who you voted for. Its not a listing -- you have to login.

[Arkinsaw]

Because other people could connect to the GA state website and see who you voted for. Georgia, or someone who works there, could sell your name to people who might be interested in seeing who you voted for so that they could sell you something. Are you really that trusting?

There are systems proposed that handle this with encrypted tracking numbers that you receive at the polling place. When you get home you can enter your encrypted number from your reciept and check your vote. It can't be tracked back to a voter.

The only problem with this is that this would allow Democrats to pay you for your vote and let you prove to them that you voted the "proper" way.

[ecomcon]

Please explain how a name can be connected to a number when the ballot does not have the number on it. I've wondered about this also. Is there no way of verifying my vote and how it was counted?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Actually that might be better than the situation we have now. But a better system would be to have each vote which is cast assigned an ID# which could be seen only by the voter while in the booth. Then any voter could record the number and check later on the Internet to see if the votes were recorded correctly. Better yet, have voting machines which print out a record of the votes a person casts, and machine print an anonymous ID# on this "receipt". Then voters would have hard evidence to present, after they checked on the Internet and found their votes had mysteriously been changed.