[sandGorgon]

yes they can. there are a few proposals around end-to-end verifiable voting.. with a "privacy preserving" verification.

This means that you can verify that you voted from whom you thought... but nobody can force that knowledge from you at gunpoint.. even if they had the verification token.

Some of the famous ones are Scantegrity (proposed by Ron Rivest) and Punchscan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_...

[grzm]

Indeed. Really interesting stuff, the intersection of security, privacy, democracy, technology, social systems.

This slide deck from Ron Rivest gives a good overview of the landscape:

Ronald L. Rivest MIT

Auditability and Verifiability of Elections

ACM-IEEE talk March 16, 2016

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv16x.pdf