Vote by mail system that allows voters to verify their votes

A method of enabling a voter to verify that the voter's ballot has been received and counted as intended by the voter in a vote by mail election comprising:

• receiving the ballot from said voter in the mail;
• generating a vote verification number for said voter;
• generating and storing a vote authentication number for said voter;
• computing a vote identification tag for said voter using a hash function by using said vote authentication number as a first argument in said hash function and said vote verification number as a second argument in said hash function;
• obtaining the voter's one or more votes from the ballot and counting the voter's one or more votes in said election;
• storing voter vote information, said voter vote information including the voter's one or more votes that were counted in said election;
• providing to said voter said vote verification number, and an acknowledgment that said ballot has been received and counted in said election;
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• after said ejection has been closed, receiving said vote verification number from said voter, obtaining said voter vote information from storage using said vote verification number and displaying said voter vote information for said voter.