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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by davidsong on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:32AM (#15192774)
From what I understand, verifiability and transparency is something you don't really want because it enables vote selling. In a secret ballot, someone dishonest enough to sell you their vote is probably dishonest enough to vote the other way.
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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by whyever on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:04PM (#15196597)
You can already sell votes, see this start-up: https://www.votebuddy.de/
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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by ygra on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:41AM (#15198531)
Quite telling are their FAQ:

Is this legal?

According to German law this is illegal. Thus we're based in New York and the website is served from the US.

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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by germanier on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:14AM (#15198661)
Just FYI, that site doesn't actually do anything. It is designed by the Peng Collective to create outrage, nothing more. The same happened during the 2000 US presidential elections with voteaction.com, a German-based site (as it's against US law) that turned out fake as well.

But of course, postal votes make vote selling possible.

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