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While I'm very much in favor of voting on policies instead of people, I don't think that would make online voting more secure. If voting wasn't anonymous, then

While I'm very much in favor of voting on policies instead of people, I don't think that would make online voting more secure. If voting wasn't anonymous, then wealthy people could pay people to vote in favor of the policies they want. Mobs could threaten people to vote the way they want. Anonymous voting is important because it prevents people from verifying what you voted for. If people can't verify what you voted for, then it doesn't make sense for them to pay you or force you to vote for what they want.

chr1 6y ago
With liquid democracy voting is not an one off thing, where wealthy person can buy a vote once, and then make up for it by corruption. If wealthy people can keep paying half the country to keep the laws the way they want, and half of the country keeps accepting that, then maybe the laws are not that bad. It is a much better situation than politicians promising tax cuts or subsidies. If country is in a situation when mobs can threaten people to vote certain way, then the same mobs can simply not accept the result of the secret vote. Moreover in a polarized society the secret vote is more likely to create mobs, because large number of people would think that no one of their acquaintances voted the "horrible way", and no decent human being could vote that way, and there was some fraud, or it is all done by hateful people from other cities and fighting is the only solution. The situation is exactly same as with money, mobs can threaten you and take your money, fraudsters can scam you, but the solution is not for everyone to hide in bunker, and pretend that he does not have any money. The solution is for everyone to accept that threatening people is not allowed, and markets are good.