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“Literally zero make the voter’s vote public” In most US states I can get a voter’s database and “party affiliation”. I was shocked that thus info is publicly
by EGreg 2y ago
“Literally zero make the voter’s vote public”
In most US states I can get a voter’s database and “party affiliation”. I was shocked that thus info is publicly available, and all the people’s addresses and driver’s license info are also stored there (and can be leaked)
And make no mistake, these databases are regularly leaked / hacked: https://qbix.com/blog/2023/06/12/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-industry-where-this-regularly-happens-2/ https://qbix.com/blog/2023/06/12/no-way-to-prevent-this-says...
In fact there is a law for states to create and maintain this information.
https://ballotpedia.org/Availability_of_state_voter_files https://ballotpedia.org/Availability_of_state_voter_files
The “party affiliation” is a very good (around 95%) proxy to how they’re going to vote when they show up, as long as the two-party system dominates, which is why I say the whole “ability to prove your vote” thing is overblown, since your party affiliation at registration is already known, even publicly:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voting-patterns-in-the-2022-elections/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voting-patte...
Explain how Estonia is able to reliably and securely do online elections, if only paper elections are secure:
https://e-estonia.com/how-did-estonia-carry-out-the-worlds-first-mostly-online-national-elections/ https://e-estonia.com/how-did-estonia-carry-out-the-worlds-f...
Many times, people claim that technology would never be able to do a good job at what humans do manually — and almost always this has been proven wrong after a while: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/03/12/in-defense-of-blockchain-voting/amp/ https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/03/12/in-defense-of-block...