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This does away with one of the key characteristics of the vote, not being able to demonstrate to someone else who you voted for. This makes it easy to coerce/bu
by pedrocr 9y ago
This does away with one of the key characteristics of the vote, not being able to demonstrate to someone else who you voted for. This makes it easy to coerce/buy votes in Oregon. If you don't want this property in your voting system (and you definitely should) doing Internet voting can actually be a safer solution in plenty of ways although it's still extremely tricky to implement properly. And I'm strongly against any form of electronic voting.
- waqf 9y agoDoesn't pretty much any kind of mail-in option* already have that limitation, and don't most jurisdictions already have some kind of mail-in option? *(maybe not ones where you actually have to product a documented reason why you can't vote in person)
- pedrocr 9y agoOregon does 100% mail-in. In most other places it's only used by a very small proportion of the population if it exists at all. But yes, any time you enable mail-in you've thrown away a big guarantee of a voting system.