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The difference is that transactions at banks aren’t anonymous. If you could only see the bank’s final balance with no insight into how much each person deposit
by guptaneil 6y ago
The difference is that transactions at banks aren’t anonymous.
If you could only see the bank’s final balance with no insight into how much each person deposited and no cash in the vaults, the bank’s reported balance would be pretty meaningless for audit purposes.
- ironmagma 6y agoHow are votes anonymous? You write your name on the ballots and they have a barcode.
- guptaneil 6y agoWe can know _who_ voted, but not _how_ they voted. These are explicitly kept separate so that you can’t sell your vote or be persecuted for how you voted. We might know which 10 people put money in a bank, but without transaction amounts, it still doesn’t help with the audit.