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> I don't think a paper receipt is necessary if the system is trusted (the system gives feedback if it accepted your input).

Front-end: "vote counted!"

Back-end: vote redirected to /dev/null!

It's not immediately obvious to me how to make such a system transparent enough to convince the losers that they lost honestly. Cryptographic schemes may be able to solve it, but I think it's an open question whether they'll be convincing and secure in practice.



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