Illegal Procedures
It appears that the procedures described by Ms. Bryson are illegal under US voting rules. The system prohibits giving receipts to voters that show which candidate they voted for. This is to prevent vote-buying, if you had a receipt, you could take it to your political Boss and show them you voted for his candidate, and get your payoff.
Furthermore, it would be illegal to put both a voter's ID and the candidate he voted for on a receipt, that would violate the Secret Ballot rules (in addition to aiding vote buying).
For details on the legalities of voting systems, I always point to CompSci Professor Doug Jones' authoritative website on voting systems:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/
In particular, I recommend his essay "A Brief Illustrated History of Voting."
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/
I am continually astonished when these modern voting systems don't follow the simple, basic procedures that have been well established for hundreds of years, as described in Prof. Jones' history paper.