Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software
by thanksgiving on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:05AM
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What happens when someone else shows up and points to the same name? I think what should happen is that it should ask the second person for proof and if they can provide it, the initial vote has to be discarded. But how? How do we know which vote is by the first person?
I assume we don't want to keep track of who voted for whom (secret ballot).
President Obama was right when he said the fix to problems in our democracy is more voter participation. Imagine if close to 100% of those eligible to vote, registered and voted. Voter fraud would be insignificant.
Sure, it's almost everywhere.
For example, I recently voted in the 2016 presidential election. I voted in San Francisco. I didn't have to provide ID. I was allowed to vote despite claiming not to remember my own address. (Which I didn't, because I hadn't lived there for a few years. Voting continuously is certainly not a requirement.)
The normal procedure is that you go to the polling place, they ask you to point yourself out on their list of registered voters, and then you vote without authenticating your identity in any way.
Is this detailed/concrete enough for you?