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I don't take this concern seriously. You can be paid/coerced to vote for someone even if there's total secrecy. For example, you can take your cellphone in an
by cogman10 2mo ago
I don't take this concern seriously.
You can be paid/coerced to vote for someone even if there's total secrecy. For example, you can take your cellphone in and take a picture of your filled out ballot to collect a payment.
Unless you want to start the confiscation of cellphones before voting in person, the risk of a coerced or bought vote will always exist.
- Fargren 2mo agoIn Argentina at least, you can get a fine[1] for taking a picture of your ballot. Certainly a hard law to enforce though. [1]https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/elecciones-2025-de-cuanto-sera-la-multa-por-sacarle-foto-a-la-boleta-unica-de-papel-a30-en-el-cuarto-oscuro.phtml https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/elecciones-2025-de-...
- budman1 2mo agoIn Texas, the election judges are supposed to stop you if you pull out a cellphone or any device. Paper is all you are allowed to use during the voting process.
- jancsika 2mo agoIn-person, high-risk rule-breaking that's hard to validate has a tendency to scale differently from say, pasting a value into a lottery/payment app. I mean, compare the number of people who've flown over Barbara Streisand's property to take a picture of her house to the number of people who had a copy of said picture in their browser cache. You can read more about this peculiar scaling factor of the internet in Bill Gates 1995 book The Road Ahead.
- nozzlegear 2mo ago> For example, you can take your cellphone in and take a picture of your filled out ballot to collect a payment. And then you can go up to the election workers and tell them you have a spoiled ballot and want a new one, which they have to give you. That's one reason such schemes don't work right now. Source: I volunteer as an election worker every year in Iowa.