I don't mean this to be a doom and gloom post, I just am just trying to think about how this would play out.

AFAIK ballots aren't tied to a person. You go to the election judge and tell them your name and confirm your address or whatever and they give you a slip that says yep you're gonna vote.

You then go to the other election judge and you trade your slip for a ballot. The ballot is 'signed' by the election judge, and the ward number is written on top. (these are pre-filled out I think)

You vote.

Now the fuckery happens. Random votes come in from nowhere.

Based on my understanding there is absolutely no way to work backwards off a ballot. A ballot doesn't tie to a person.

So how can we unfuck the election? Even if you go through all the possible registered voters and disqualify them from the election - you don't know who they voted for, so you can't roll back a candidate's number.

I simply don't understand why we've put in place a method of voting which can't be validated.

Without the bullshit answers, is there ANY way this election can be unfucked from a pure validation standpoint?