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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by sarahsbasar on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:44AM (#33516863)
Can't this system work:

- You publish a public list of randomly generated numbers/IDs (the number of IDs corresponding to the number of eligible voters, guess you need a reasonably accurate census data for this)

- Divide up into subsets and distribute these IDs to each voting booth.

- When you go to vote you draw on of those numbers and attach it to your vote.

- Election results are published as "ID X voted for Y".

Now everyone can check that their vote was counted, and everyone can check that the original list of of IDs matches the final results (or in reality, count(final list) < count(original list) since not everyone votes).

Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:19AM (#33517056)
This is an open ballot, which has it's own set of problems like vote buying and voter intimidation.
Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by zwily on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:21AM (#33518646)
Nobody but you would know your id though.
Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:49AM (#33519558)
Anybody trying to intimidate you or buy your vote could demand you prove you voted correctly by giving your number.
Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by dormento on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:41AM (#33520170)
These things may seem farfetched, but happen very often in certain parts of the world.

Here very recently the Federal Road Administration was caught stopping buses in regions where the left leaning presidential candidate had the strongest support. We also had a few tens of cases where business owners were discussing strategies on how to get their employees to vote for the right-wing candidate, and some strategies depended on breaking the law by taking you smartphone to the voting booths and taking a picture (breaking the law in the process).

Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by atoav on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:19AM (#33517051)
.. in a country where many people think ¼ is bigger than ⅓.

Seriously. We are talking about people who would claim rain is not wet, while it pours down their face if it was somehow helping them "owning" the other side. No clever system is going to fix people not wanting democracy anymore.

This is an issue of decades of uncontrolled "news" media and a lack of education and the US is going to harvest the fruit of that neglect for the next decades at least.

It might be my education about the roots of fascism that I got by growing up within the borders of former Nazi Germany, but US democracy is in an extremely dangerous spot right now. The specific mixture of economic pressures, media bubbles, lack of education, corrupt political actors and processes and split culture is a volatile explosive mix.

Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by deelowe on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:50AM (#33516898)
The problem is that people still won’t trust it.