[ninjanomnom]

Voting is intentionally designed for it to be impossible to verify what your final vote is so that it's impossible for someone to use that to hold you to a particular vote. A classic example being a household all being forced to vote one way by the head of that household. With no verification possible you can freely vote without influence from others who would use that verification for their own ends.

This is also why taking a picture of your ballot will nullify it if you're caught doing so. Not as punishment, but so you can vote again with potentially different choices and a valid excuse for having no verification.

[maneesh]

This is interesting and something I hadn't thought of. Thank you.

[b3spoke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI elaborates on that point, and has some other useful points against electronic voting

[mechanical_bear]

> This is also why taking a picture of your ballot will nullify it

In what jurisdiction is this the case? I have never heard of it.

[amalcon]

It generally won't, because the systems are designed to make it difficult to nullify a specific person's ballot after the fact. In some jurisdictions, though, there are specified criminal penalties for doing this.

[mikestew]

You can do a search, but a minority of states in the U. S. outlaw it.