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My concern here isn't around integrity of the vote but secrecy of the vote for a given person in this event. It might just be that this is so different from wha
by estebank 6y ago
My concern here isn't around integrity of the vote but secrecy of the vote for a given person in this event. It might just be that this is so different from what I've seen in other systems that it stood out.
- stouset 6y agoAh, yeah. I do agree that that's a weakness here: you hand your ballots to the poll worker, they void it out, and that's placed into a bin to be counted at the end of the day. Potentially a poll worker could use that opportunity to look at your ballot and see who you voted for. Perhaps it would be better if you were allowed to tear the ballot in half yourself and drop it into the slot but there may be a reason why it's not done that way.
- thaeli 6y agoVirginia here, but this should apply anywhere paper ballots are used. The voter is free to mark the ballot they hand back to be spoiled and replaced any way they want, including in a manner that obscures who they voted for. The ideal marking if someone was concerned about this would be to go through and check every box for every candidate before handing it in to be spoiled.
- estebank 6y agoThere are systems where the ballot itself isn't special, but the envelope you use is. Because of that there's no need to account for the ballots themselves. Poll workers never interact with your vote, you place the filled envelope in the ballot box, just like dropping off mail-in ballots work here.