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Just a wild thought I had: If you remember the invisible dots that printers add, so the government can track where something was printed. ( https://news.ycombi
by alain_gilbert 9y ago
Just a wild thought I had:
If you remember the invisible dots that printers add, so the government can track where something was printed.
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14501894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14501894 )
I wonder if some government did/are/could use this technologies to deanonymize voters.
For example they would print your SSN on the piece of paper that you are voting on.
- askvictor 9y agoIt might be possible, but quite difficult in practice given that a voter can show up at any time to any number of voting stations.
- alain_gilbert 9y agoIt's been a while I haven't voted. I'm from Canada and currently live abroad. But If I remember well, I had to actually vote at a specific place. The part I don't remember well is if they were giving me a specific sheet of paper, or just take one on the top of a stack. I remember they were looking for my name, and I have a souvenir that they detached the side of the sheet (but this is vague). I guess it was a stack :)
- askvictor 9y agoIn Australia, you can go to any polling station in your electorate, where they find your name in a book of paper (of which there are several copies in each station, and several stations in each electorate), cross it off, and give you a ballot paper from a stack. Presumably they process the names lists after the fact to see if anyone voted twice, though by that point there's no way to get the votes out of the mix.