You don't have to see a grassy knoll at every polling place to harbor suspicions about ballot technology and to demand receipts verifying that the machine properly recorded your vote.
Particularly the moment you managed to elicit, dare I say, a silent understanding, from the cohort of truancy officers curious about your vote record and Senate attendance.
You, the voter, have no way of knowing if your vote is recorded as you intended"."That is why hundreds of nationally renowned computer scientists, including David Dill of Stanford University, consider a voter-verified paper trail to be a critical safeguard for the accuracy, integrity and security of computer-assisted elections," Holt continued.
The idea is not about recording video of you casting your vote, to be clear, but is rather an opportunity for some first-hand, citizen journalism about the voting experience at your local polling place.
"I checked your voting record.
"Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the church's most ancient moral teachings," the letter says.
"A lot of them said, 'I'd never heard of you, and I liked what you said and I went and checked your voting record and you'd actually voted that way,' " he said.
Consider it from my perspective: you spend years preparing for a federal election, you defeat the once powerful Conservatives, and then, instead of getting to defend your voting record in Parliament, or explain why modest government spending isn't the worst evil, all you read and hear about is how you're the best-looking world leader, probably in history.
