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Secrecy of votes is the foundation of the system. Just imagine how many people would be willing to sell their vote if they could prove it to a third party.
by arnarbi 13y ago
Secrecy of votes is the foundation of the system. Just imagine how many people would be willing to sell their vote if they could prove it to a third party.
- ChrisAntaki 13y agoVote selling is a form of Voting Fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_selling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_selling Secret ballots make it even easier to pull off.
- mapmeld 13y agoFor many years in the US, it was easy to do vote-selling because each political party gave their voters a color-coded, one-party ballot. The secret ballot makes vote selling unreliable, because it's impossible to prove whether someone has voted as promised.
- eli 13y agoHuh? Selling your vote is extremely difficult with a closed ballot and extremely easy with an open ballot. Do you mean that the vote selling is offset by ending other forms of voting fraud? Other forms of voting fraud are incredibly rare.
- ChrisAntaki 13y agoIn the Gore vs. Bush election, there were potentially a lot of votes sold.