(05-29-2020, 12:35 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(05-29-2020, 12:24 PM)TJBender Wrote: So here's how you do it:

1. Two months before the election, send every registered voter a PIN. Send the PIN again at 45 days. Without this PIN, online balloting cannot be completed and a mail-in ballot won't be accepted.
   
2. The ballot contains a second identification number, tied to that PIN. The PIN and ballot are never stored together, but if the PIN doesn't match the ballot ID, the vote won't be counted. Personal identification is not contained on either form.
   

...that's it. Dual-factor authentication saves the day again.

Except that's not two factor authentication.

...excuse me?

Maybe not in the sense that it doesn't require your fingerprints, but it's the best way to handle it without requiring information linking a ballot to a person. If someone wants to steal those votes, they'd have to canvas the neighborhood twice. Once to steal the PIN, once to steal the ballot. If the local office received numerous reports of PINs that never arrived, they'd presumably issue new ones with new numbers linked to the existing ballots.

---