Welcome Slashdot! Pretty please, read the FAQ! And NO, the receipt DOES NOT allow you to prove to ANYONE how you voted.

Transparent, High Integrity, Open Source Elections

Welcome to the new age of elections. Punchscan is an optical scan voting system invented by David Chaum that allows voters to take a piece of the ballot home with them as a receipt. This receipt does not allow voters to prove how they voted to others, but it does permit them to:

• Verify that they have properly indicated their votes to election officials (cast-as-intended).
• Verify with extremely high assurance that all votes were counted properly (counted-as-cast).

Punchscan Voting in a Nutshell