How come vote from receipts are no longer attached to your ballot and if you want  a receipt. You take one with a random number ?

I also see that ALL ballots from my precinct have the same number/barcode.
So theoretically,  ballot counter could choose the ballot that best suited their view and just run it thru the counter for total amount of ballots collected !   

   This is still bugging me. 
I flipped a quick note off to media.

   Was  it like this in everybody's precinct ?
Does any one have or know where to find the 2014, 2016 and 2018 precinct voting records (how many votes for each candidate by district/precinct) ?
I'd love to compare them.

I have lived in "Blue" states most of my adult life.
These days I always vote absentee, I assume the Democrat
vote counters toss my ballot in
the trash and make up one of their own, or
"find" missing ballots that are always for a Democrat.
I quit voting in public when I had to stand in
line for two hours and listen to dozens of
Democrats extol  the virtues of BJ Clinton in 1992.
I wanted to throttle them, but as I had a CCW license,
I kept my cool and vowed to never be put in a situation
where I was forced to listen to Democrats and not respond,
ever again.
In this state I vote, but I know it is an absolute waste of time.
We may as well go back to a monarchy,  subject to the US bill of rights
instead of  the Oligarchy we have now,
which is so obnoxious and so out of control.