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As a non citizen who worked the polls as a clerk, there’s plenty of ballot secrecy. Many people don’t care. But there are procedures in place. Sometimes people
by ryanobjc 6y ago
As a non citizen who worked the polls as a clerk, there’s plenty of ballot secrecy. Many people don’t care. But there are procedures in place. Sometimes people do care and they can obscure it.
Once the ballot is in the box, disassociated from the voter then there is no more secrecy concerns.
- estebank 6y ago> Once the ballot is in the box, disassociated from the voter then there is no more secrecy concerns. There are plenty of towns where "everyone knows everyone" and a system that requires trust on poll workers in this aspect is a bit alien to me. For example, one system I am familiar with the ballot itself is not special, the envelope is (it has signatures from the poll workers, which is also problematic because they can potentially surreptitiously mark the envelope in a special way to associate the vote to a specific person), which makes it unnecessary for poll workers to ever be in contact with the ballots themselves. Overall, my qualms are minimal and am more concerned about the use of computers for the vote than anything else in the process.