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Being able to confirm your vote later using a serial number may be convenient, but it makes it possible to sell your vote. I could offer my vote for sale and th
by tspiteri 17y ago
Being able to confirm your vote later using a serial number may be convenient, but it makes it possible to sell your vote. I could offer my vote for sale and then give the serial number to the buyer so that he makes sure I voted the way I was supposed to.
- jellicle 17y agoSince that's also possible with the current voting system, it can't be considered a strike against this proposal. Absentee voting is possible in every state, usually without any reason given, and any absentee voter can just hand the incomplete ballot over to the attacker in exchange for whatever compensation. Since offering your vote for sale is illegal in any case, this has to be considered a threat that is so minor as to be nonexistent.
- falsestprophet 17y agoThat is false. The purpose of the code business is to make votes anonymous. The key to the system is that before the election, the election commission prepares a set of tables that, taken together, link the ballot codes and the candidates’ names; but that link can’t be deduced from any one table by itself.