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I can't think of a fix for paying people for their votes since that problem still exists today (albeit to a lesser extent than if a voter's vote were verifiable

I can't think of a fix for paying people for their votes since that problem still exists today (albeit to a lesser extent than if a voter's vote were verifiable), but I imagine they wouldn't be able to keep it under wraps for very long. Anyone offering to pay money will definitely risk drawing attention to themselves, and I believe ethical people will report suspicious people to voting investigators. As far as the UUID/pair frauds, we could mail a confirmation letter to the voters stating that they voted. Since I don't think we could tie the UUID to the actual voter, we could tell them they participated in this year's election and to verify the results to the receipt. This part is compounded in difficulty partly due to federal voting regulations that don't allow us to tie a voter to his votes, so I think the only real way is to verify videotapes verifying that said voters appeared in person to vote. Again there are flaws and it will take more people to resolve the issues with electronic voting.

vidarh 16y ago
Secret voting was brought in pretty much as a direct response to widespread coercion and purchasing of votes in many different places. It reduced the problem significantly by making it impossible (or at least significantly harder) to verify that you vote the way you promised. The UUID suggestion is worse than the way it used to be, as in the past you generally required people at the polling place to oversee the voting to ensure your people voted the way they were told/paid to do, while with a receipt available, you can monitor more people with fewer people of your own.