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== Post Election Ballot Validation ==
== Post Election Ballot Validation ==
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Once the vote has closed, the ballot of all votes cast is ''publicly'' viewable (and downloadable) by everyone.  The list includes the votes cast, including the order of the choices for multi-choice votes, and the random validation strings for each vote.  Since each voter knows his or her validation string, they can validate their vote is correct.  They can also count the votes, and validate that the ''results'' of the election are correct.  But since only one random validation string is known per voter, voters (as well as admins) can not determine who voted for which candidates in the election.  Since there are no links to the original owner or starting token in the final voting table, there's also no way for an administrator (or anyone with database access) to determine who voted for which candidates either.
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Once the vote has closed, the ballot of all votes cast is ''publicly'' viewable (and downloadable) by everyone.  The list includes the votes cast, including the order of the choices for multi-choice votes, and the random validation strings for each vote.  Since each voter knows his or her validation string, they can validate their vote is correct.  They can also count the votes, and validate that the ''results'' of the election are correct.  But since only one random validation string is known per voter, voters can not determine who voted for which candidates in the election.  Since there are no links to the original owner or starting token in the final voting table, there's also no way for an administrator (or anyone with database access) to determine who voted for which candidates either.
= Technical Details =
= Technical Details =

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