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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by 0xffff2 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:51PM (#14972406)
>You fill out your ballot in secret, you're not permitted to take a photograph of it, and you place it in the ballot box without telling anybody what you've voted for.

In the US, only one of those is guaranteed [0]. In California, where I can get an absentee ballot just by asking for it, none of those is guaranteed.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/ballot-se...

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by vertex-four on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:08PM (#14973624)
Yes, well, the US also broadly thinks electronic vote recording is a good idea. Let's not pretend it's any good at designing voting systems.
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