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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by yreg on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:10AM (#28024672)
How would they do it? Have a unique id for each envelope and enter citizen ID and ballot ID in a database as they hand you the envelope?

The process should be well known since all it takes to find out is go sit in an election committee.

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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by suction on Sunday August 01, 2021 @02:55PM (#28028853)
That assumes that the Japanese version of democracy works similar to the ones we live in. Which it doesn't, at all. It's more of an authoritarian system with a friendly, democratic facade put in front when the US pressured Japan to modernize after WW2. A very interesting topic, I've recommended this book on HN before: Karel Van Wolferen - "The Enigma of Japanese power". Basically what we think of the system of modern Japan in the West are carefully doctored fairy-tales and mythology.
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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by yreg on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:25AM (#28034197)
Can you be more specific what exactly my question assumes which is not true?
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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by suction on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @05:35AM (#28047247)
That 1. they have similar election committees and 2. anyone can go take part in them
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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by yreg on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:01AM (#28058471)
How are they dissimilar to the western ones? Who participates in them? Can't the parties candidating in the election nominate their representatives into the committees?
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