[sadawi]

Sure, but there's a benefit to receipts: you can verify that your vote was counted correctly.

[shinratdr]

Well, you can verify that the receipt says your vote was counted correctly. That assumes you both trust the receipt system and believe that whatever tampering was done to cause your Obama vote to become a Romney vote couldn't have possibly also resulted in the receipt providing incorrect information as well.

[sadawi]

Ideally, I think the complete list of votes (with receipt confirmation numbers, but no names, obviously) would be available for inspection.