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Keep a record that I voted. Don't attach it to my vote.
by JasonFruit 7y ago
Keep a record that I voted. Don't attach it to my vote.
- umvi 7y agoOk, and how do you verify that your vote was cast for X candidate (i.e. that the machine didn't count your vote for Y candidate)? There's no way to do that without tying the voter to the vote somehow. Why not hash the voter ID + a secret of your choosing and store that with the vote? Then, even if counting by hand, you can verify your vote was indeed cast for X candidate.
- beat 7y agoPaper.
- brlewis 7y agoSuch verification would enable a market for selling votes.
- umvi 7y agoJust make vote selling illegal then? Or just make verification onerous, so that you can only do it during a recount, not on-demand via the internet. I would rather be able to verify that my vote was cast to the desired candidate than to have a strictly anonymous (but unverifiable) voting system.