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If you just give out a number you suddenly open up the system to voter coercion. I can actually prove to you how I voted. Also, as a voter I can't be sure that
by germanier 10y ago
If you just give out a number you suddenly open up the system to voter coercion. I can actually prove to you how I voted. Also, as a voter I can't be sure that they system that gives me the number does not save the link between it and me.
For preference voting you don't need e-voting. Using computers to help you count ballots (with an analog check and fallback option) is possible without actually collecting the votes electronically.
- mavhc 10y agoMuch more of an issue that people don't vote than people sell their votes, which they do indirectly anyway. Does anywhere use computer printed ballots?, to avoid ambiguously filled out ballots. Computer creates PNG, you print that, or it's printed at a station, you carry that paper to the vote counting machine, it's optically read, (and read by humans if you wish) without errors because it was just printed by a computer