Maryland experimented with a new voting system last week

[thewayne]

Rather interesting. First, each ballot is numbered (they are already so they can account for spoiled ballots). Second, you use a special pen to mark your candidate. When you mark your candidate, a hidden code is revealed, and you can go online and enter your ballot number and verify that your vote was properly counted for the selections that you made.

It's also inexpensive, using high-end commercial scanners, coming in at half the cost of dedicated systems.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/scantegrity

Comments

[deborak]

So if you want to know how a specific person voted, all you need is a keyboard capture trojan on their computer so you can snag their ballot number and secret code when they go online to verify . . . heh

[silveradept]

This looks like a good foray into ensuring that votes are accurately recorded and counted. This system will be quietly killed because of it by Diebold or others who have a stake in ensuring elections are closed-source.