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Re:CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in Am... by guptaneil on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:52PM (#25078649)
The difference is that transactions at banks aren’t anonymous.

If you could only see the bank’s final balance with no insight into how much each person deposited and no cash in the vaults, the bank’s reported balance would be pretty meaningless for audit purposes.

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Re:CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in Am... by ironmagma on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:13PM (#25078792)
How are votes anonymous? You write your name on the ballots and they have a barcode.
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Re:CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in Am... by guptaneil on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:17PM (#25078813)
We can know _who_ voted, but not _how_ they voted. These are explicitly kept separate so that you can’t sell your vote or be persecuted for how you voted.

We might know which 10 people put money in a bank, but without transaction amounts, it still doesn’t help with the audit.

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