The Problem of Validating RA Elections

The RA will not release election results like the US government. A corespondent writes: I would think that in the interest of transparency, that information would be public. It’s certainly public for US elections, which I would think would be the best measure of how to hold a fair election. If they won’t release who voted, what’s to prevent voter fraud? Right now, you could look at the US Presidential election and see who voted and randomly validate that those people voted. With RA, there is no way to check, other than to just hope everything worked out alright. Conceivably, someone could send a team of volunteers out to walk around the area the day the ballots are sent out, pick as many out of the mail boxes as they could, and mail them all in. The auditors would validate and RA would assume they are accurate.



There would be a small chance of someone noticing that they never got a ballot, calling in and identifying the issue, but that would be unlikely.