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We just had an election in BC, Canada, and the way it worked here is that everyone has a "home" polling location which is responsible for ensuring that their vo
by cperciva 2y ago
We just had an election in BC, Canada, and the way it worked here is that everyone has a "home" polling location which is responsible for ensuring that their vote is counted once and only once.
If the distributed system is not partitioned, you can show up to vote anywhere and they tell your home precinct that you've voted; then during vote counting the precinct where you voted tells your home precinct "add the following to your vote totals".
If the system is partitioned -- either from network outages or remote polling locations or mail-in ballots -- then your ballot goes into an envelope and is physically sent to your home precinct in the week following the election, to be verified and included in the count.
- dh2022 2y agoBut what if I vote three times in three different locations all different from my "home" polling location?
- cperciva 2y agoIf the network is connected, the first time you vote succeeds and marks you as having voted; subsequent attempts fail because they know you've already voted. If the network is not connected, your three remote ballots go into envelopes marked "dh2022" and in the week following the election they are physically transported to your home polling location, at which point they see that you tried to vote three times, set those ballots aside, and call the police.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoThis breaks the anonymity of the vote, marks can be traced back to real people. It also allows fraud by voting for people who didn't show up.