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Giving a comfirmation that person has voted for a specific candidate simplifies buying votes. Also, an employer might require employees to bring such a confirma

• ApolloFortyNine 7y ago
  With 30% of the population not even bothering to vote (regardless of who runs), votes would likely be eerily cheap to buy. And in many states even just getting a couple percent more to vote your way will flip the state. I'm already not a fan of allowing places to do freebies for people who have an "I voted" sticker. If it takes a freebie for you to go out and vote, I really don't think you should be voting. And it's incredibly likely they'd just vote blindly for whoever is advertising more in the area.
• SkyBelow 7y ago
  While these are problems, maybe the trade off is worth it for people to know there vote counted. There may also be a solution that allows a person to know but allows them to alter it for anyone else wanting to view it.
• olooney 7y ago
  The point isn't to get a receipt that I personally voted. The receipt analogy isn't that exact. The point is create a verifiable paper trail for the event that some registered voter voted a certain way. Paper ballots do that. He's just pointing out how ridiculous it is to argue that it's somehow too expensive or onerous to create a paper trail when every parking lot, every coffee shop, every store is able to create a more extensive paper trail even for the most inconsequential transactions.