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Ideally, you'd want to be able to verify your vote was counted correctly, but not be able to determine whether a specific individual voted a certain way. It's s

Ideally, you'd want to be able to verify your vote was counted correctly, but not be able to determine whether a specific individual voted a certain way. It's so you can't feasibly sell your vote; it's one thing to say you voted a certain way, it's another to prove you actually did it. It's also to protect the voter against retaliation; imagine if the government can discriminate based on how you voted. You can always destroy paper ballots; it's difficult to destroy public blockchain ledgers.

SilasX 8y ago
>Ideally, you'd want to be able to verify your vote was counted correctly, but not be able to determine whether a specific individual voted a certain way. It's so you can't feasibly sell your vote; it's one thing to say you voted a certain way, it's another to prove you actually did it. Right -- my point was that the parent was equating the two, but that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It's great that you can't prove to others how you voted, but not if it allows a third party to overwrite your vote without your knowledge!