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>You fill out your ballot in secret, you're not permitted to take a photograph of it, and you place it in the ballot box without telling anybody what you've vot
by 0xffff2 9y ago
>You fill out your ballot in secret, you're not permitted to take a photograph of it, and you place it in the ballot box without telling anybody what you've voted for.
In the US, only one of those is guaranteed [0]. In California, where I can get an absentee ballot just by asking for it, none of those is guaranteed.
[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/ballot-selfies-allowed-as-u-s-high-court-rebuffs-new-hampshire https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/ballot-se...
- vertex-four 9y agoYes, well, the US also broadly thinks electronic vote recording is a good idea. Let's not pretend it's any good at designing voting systems.