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> "Electronic voting should be allowed but not unless it prints out a ballot with all your selections on it so you can verify and have a real paper trail" The

> "Electronic voting should be allowed but not unless it prints out a ballot with all your selections on it so you can verify and have a real paper trail" The lack of a receipt is deliberate and prevents vote-buying. A carbon copy of your vote will open as many avenues to fraud as it will close.

weaksauce 14y ago
Not what I was meaning. A physical ballot that you can actually put into a box that then gets counted. You don't get to keep it.
Firehed 14y ago
With everyone and their dog carrying around a camera in their pocket by means of a cell phone? Hardly. Anyone interested in selling their vote could easily take a photo of their ballot (with some identifying info added to the photo as well to show it wasn't a copy from a friend) to prove they voted the way they were paid. Even if this theoretically did increase the chance of vote-buying, I think it's still a worthwhile tradeoff for the massive increase in accountability we get from it.
- trhtrsh 14y ago
  What does it matter what the voter takes a photo of? That has no proven relationship to what bit is stored in the machine's memory.
  - Firehed 14y ago
    People could falsify the ballot to the buyer.