The most important document in America today are not financial. Nor are they contractual, nor are they even laws. The ballot is, simply, the most important document, as it renders the decisions of its citizens to define every aspect of American life: Financial, security, military, sociological, culture, transportation, medical, and every other interaction all has its genesis in the ballot, and the decisions they convey to determine the direction of America.
So it makes no sense to treat ballots with less security than convenience store receipts–unless you are trying to cheat the system. For over two centuries, voting has always taken place at poll stations on an exclusive basis, with the moral turpitude of the poll workers providing the security of the ballots themselves. But in the past 20 years, ballots have migrated from poll station documents to mail-in documents that are printed virtually anywhere, with no controls to their manufacture or their navigation history.
When we look at the documents like currency, bonds, financial certificates, and even lottery tickets, we see strict controls at all stages of their manufacture and creation of those documents. Imagine the ability to print one hundred dollar bills, or winning lottery tickets, and then passing them off as real. It would never pass.
VoterComp has initiated the most secure and auditable ballot process in history. The manufacture of the ballots will be done at a mint-grade security process. But physical design is not the only facet. The ability to transport the ballots through the voting process must be just as secure as that we treat vital financial documents. That includes secure transport, secure storage prior to use, secure delivery to the voter whether it be at the precinct polling stations, or arranged to be delivered to the absentee voter. After that, the ballots need to be securely processed during actual vote of the citizen. Secure transportation back to the regional voting center follows, in preparation for the official counting process. After the validation of the vote, which at this point becomes official, the ballots are transported to immediate secure storage for the constitutionally-mandated limits of 22 months. At that point, they can legally be destroyed, or states may elect to archive the ballots in perpetuity in a secure,