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When you vote from home I can show up and put a gun to your kid's head and tell you to vote for Pedro. When you vote with some sort of association with your na
by wang_li 3y ago
When you vote from home I can show up and put a gun to your kid's head and tell you to vote for Pedro.
When you vote with some sort of association with your name I can look up how you voted after the fact and if you didn't vote for Pedro I can blow up your house.
The fact is that the secret, anonymous ballot is the only valid way of voting.
- Someone 3y ago> When you vote from home I can show up and put a gun to your kid's head and tell you to vote for Pedro If you could do that at a scale large enough to affect the result, I would think you could also do that at each ballot box and make the vote counters report the results you want them to report. Also, if you could do that at scale, why would you bother with elections at all? IMO, the main problem with digital voting is that it makes it possible to change the vote count without needing lots of people to do so. With thousands of ballot boxes, open counting of votes for each ballot box and the publication of election results per ballot box that’s basically impossible.
- wang_li 3y agoIn the 2020 election one of the seats for the House of Representatives had an initial margin of victory of six votes. After recounting it was something like twenty. And another had a final margin of victory around one hundred.
- Someone 3y agoI doubt anybody could tell it was going to get that close. The uncertainty likely ranked into the thousands, if not tens of thousands of votes. I think few fraudsters will be happy with slightly increasing their odds by swinging the vote by a few hundred votes. Instead, they’ll want almost certainty, if not complete certainty.