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An important property of our voting system is that it is impossible for a voter to prove (to a third party) how he/she voted. This property is important becaus
by nokcha 6y ago
An important property of our voting system is that it is impossible for a voter to prove (to a third party) how he/she voted. This property is important because it guards against bribing/coercing/pressuring voters to vote for particular candidates. I don't know of any practical way of enabling a voter to check that his/her vote was correctly counted without also compromising the anti-bribery property, especially with a realistic model of the abilities and limitations of most voters.
- whimsicalism 6y agoOnly mildly related, but an interesting suggestion I've seen involved the use of intentionally "poisoned" ballots that people could request/would be sent along with your mail in ballot. These ballots would be verified in the same way as normal ballots, but wouldn't count. Then, you could show a prospective vote buyer a poisoned ballot verified vote which they wouldn't be able to distinguish from a counted vote, rendering vote buying unprofitable.