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> Voting online would be trivial. I disagree. Online voting is highly non-trivial once you factor in that any voting system must be (1) verifiably accurate, an

• foobarqux 14y ago
  In fact I would like to know if it is not clearly impossible since there appears to be no way to prevent coercion. edit: The article does mention coercion as being a problem.
• jellicle 14y ago
  Secret from whom? Requirement 2 does not actually exist in any significant form. The change from public voting to secret voting involved a change from a system where people generally came forward and shouted their vote in front of a roomful of people who would cheer or boo as appropriate, to a system where people deposited their ballot in am opaque box. That's the only change. Anyone who wishes to can vote non-secretly today, by shouting or waving their ballot around, by voting by mail, whatever they want. The "secret" ballot is a misnomer. In fact the shift was from "mandatory open ballot" to "optional open ballot". It is not and never has been "mandatory secret ballot". TL;DR: There's nothing LESS secret about voting online than voting by mail, which is already legal for anyone in any state to do.
  • cabalamat 14y ago
    > Secret from whom? Secret from everyone else except the voter. There should be no way that I can prove to anyone how I voted. The purpose of this is to make it impossible fro anyone to bribe or blackmail a voter into voting a particular way. > Anyone who wishes to can vote non-secretly today, by shouting or waving their ballot around This would probably be illegal in the UK. > by voting by mail That's true. Postal voting does prevent voting being secret.