Next year I'm demanding a receipt for my vote.

[rug]

[Debi]

1. With the opportunity for a return or refund? n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Yes. but will you allow them to check it before they allow you to leave?

[rug]

3. At least somebody will be able check the votes.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. Word.

:thumbsup:

[Hydra]

4. who's going to count the receipts?

"Those who cast the Votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything."

Joseph Stalin(Former Bankrobber)

[rug]

8. Circuit City has good deals on calculators.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. We get voter receipts.

The ballot has a serial number and I suppose that we individual citizens could demand to see that our vote was counted, but I've never tried.

[flamin lib]

7. Reciepts for votes are illegal. Any evidence of your vote must remain

in the polling place. The reason is that a reciept retained by the voter could be used as proof of voting for a particular candidate which could lead to purchasing votes. A party hack could hang out near a polling place and offer $10 for every reciept with his candidate's name on it.

Paper ballots, yes! Even a VVPAT, but reciepts are illegal.

[rug]

9. But what if a poll worker demands to see one when I try to leave?

[flamin lib]

10. No one can demand to see one because it is illegal to issue one.

It is illegal to print a reciept. Federal law. All evidence of your vote, i.e. paper ballot, voter verified paper audit trail etc, must remain inside the polling place.