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What's to stop you from selling you paper vote to someone?
by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What's to stop you from selling you paper vote to someone?
- cornholio 9y agoFor a paper ballot, it's much more difficult and risky to prove delivery, yet you are fairly certain it's been counted. The grandparent proposes a perfect counting guarantee, at the cost of providing every voter and coercer a crypto proof of the ballot value, a very bad compromise.
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoWouldn't a cell phone video of the vote seller casting their ballot suffice as proof to the buyer?
- gsnedders 9y agoPlenty of places make it illegal to take a photo in the voting booth (or polling station generally), and the voting booth is visible enough to election officials (albeit with your back to them and hence the ballot not directly visible) that it'd be very hard to do without arousing suspicion.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- cornholio 9y agoIt's easy to configure the voting booth to provide privacy for the voting itself, while making it risky to photograph the vote. You don't know the vote was actually delivered, ex. he might have gotten a fresh voting paper or punched/stamped excessive options to annul the vote. There is also an electronic evidence trail of the fraud - any caught vote seller will immediately cooperate with the authorities and rat on the ringmasters. Real world security works on "just hard enough not to be worthwhile", not absolute guarantees.
- sigstoat 9y agoelectronic devices and photographic equipment aren't even allowed in my local polling places. i had to leave a kindle outside. that is as it should be.
- zo1 9y agoWhat exactly is wrong with selling your vote?