>You also should have a unique number on each ballot that you can later use to look up how your ballot was recorded. The standard objection to such a practice

>You also should have a unique number on each ballot that you can later use to look up how your ballot was recorded. The standard objection to such a practice is that it facilitates vote buying / selling / coercion by giving the voter a means of proving how he voted. However, I think it's a good idea nonetheless. All the ballots, randomly numbered, should go into a file available for download. That way, anyone can count them, and any voter can verify that his particular ballot was recorded correctly.