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You can be pressured still with paper voting: They can just ask you to take a picture of your voting card with your mobile phone. It's illegal but no one will n
by relix 9y ago
You can be pressured still with paper voting: They can just ask you to take a picture of your voting card with your mobile phone. It's illegal but no one will notice because, guess what, you're in a private voting booth that no one should be able to see into.
There are ways to avoid being coerced when enabling online vote: have an online vote for a week, then a few days after the online vote ends, have one day of paper voting. If you were coerced during the online vote, you can still go to the paper vote later, at which point your online vote will be overwritten by the paper vote[0]. This is still not fool proof (i.e. one can force people not to go to the paper vote after coercing their online vote) but as explained above, neither is normal voting.
- foepys 9y agoExtortion of individual voters doesn't scale. Electronic voting could be manipulated for millions of votes without anyone even knowing.
- relix 9y agoI was merely pointing out that "Lack of coercion" is not a inherent feature of paper voting nor a feature that is lacking in electronic voting.
- sethgecko 9y agoIn the scenario you described above what is to stop you from taking a picture of a different voting card than the one you put in the envelope?
- celticninja 9y agoYou are only issued one voting card.
- rocqua 9y agoThe real solution to the picture thing is to help forge those photos. Create a booth where ballots aren't counted, and let people vote however they want there, and let them take pictures. A picture then says nothing, because the coercer cannot verify the picture. The biggest hole here is that the coercer might follow you into the polling station to see if you use the fake booth.