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This article highlights the trade-off between the secrecy of ballots, and the ability of the individual voter to confirm their vote was correctly recorded. But
by abeppu 6y ago
This article highlights the trade-off between the secrecy of ballots, and the ability of the individual voter to confirm their vote was correctly recorded.
But the other discrepancy relative to banking is that for elections, we want to also verify that no extra votes were snuck in. By comparison, while I require my bank to get my balance and transaction correct, I have no expectation that I'll be able to verify that balances for all other accounts were summed correctly.
- blfr 6y agoWhile we don't do it individually, we have regulators who (are supposed to) control the money creation by banks. Just like we have semi-independent election boards that (again, are supposed to) verify the balances.
- anoncake 6y agoWhich isn't possible in case of an election. If you knew the proper result, you wouldn't need the election.