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Voting is intentionally designed for it to be impossible to verify what your final vote is so that it's impossible for someone to use that to hold you to a part
by ninjanomnom 5y ago
Voting is intentionally designed for it to be impossible to verify what your final vote is so that it's impossible for someone to use that to hold you to a particular vote. A classic example being a household all being forced to vote one way by the head of that household. With no verification possible you can freely vote without influence from others who would use that verification for their own ends.
This is also why taking a picture of your ballot will nullify it if you're caught doing so. Not as punishment, but so you can vote again with potentially different choices and a valid excuse for having no verification.
- maneesh 5y agoThis is interesting and something I hadn't thought of. Thank you.
- b3spoke 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI elaborates on that point, and has some other useful points against electronic voting
- mechanical_bear 5y ago> This is also why taking a picture of your ballot will nullify it In what jurisdiction is this the case? I have never heard of it.
- mikestew 5y agoYou can do a search, but a minority of states in the U. S. outlaw it.
- amalcon 5y agoIt generally won't, because the systems are designed to make it difficult to nullify a specific person's ballot after the fact. In some jurisdictions, though, there are specified criminal penalties for doing this.