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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by tomjen3 on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:01PM (#3222325)
That's the ideal, but in reality even normal pencil voting can be hacked since it is pretty simple to take a picture of your ballot with a smartphone. Then you can prove whom you voted for.
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by pingswept on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:12PM (#3222370)
How would a picture of a ballot prove that it was your ballot, that the picture hadn't been doctored, and that the ballot hadn't been doctored?
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by chc on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:58PM (#3222582)
I don't think that's very salient. You could raise analogous objections for Internet-based voting weaknesses, or most information leaks in general.
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by eli on Thursday November 10, 2011 @09:14PM (#3223046)
Only if the Internet-voting based system is very carefully designed. It's rather difficult to verify that your vote was counting in a way that doesn't also prove who you voted for.

There are some papers describing systems to do this that seems like they could work. But they're pretty complex.

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