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What about buying or coercing votes? Seems like a purely mail-in system would enable both. One benefit of polling places is that it's very difficult (if not imp
by jharger 10y ago
What about buying or coercing votes? Seems like a purely mail-in system would enable both. One benefit of polling places is that it's very difficult (if not impossible) to tell who anyone voted for.
- benjohnson 10y agoIt is a problem. For example - my wife and I fill out the ballot together as a family on the dining room table. It's certainly possible that one of us influences the other, and that by voting in the open, one of us isn't free to vote their conscience.
- makomk 10y agoThis has been a problem in some areas of the UK relatively recently: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4406575.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/440...