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Re:Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contribut... by cogman10 on Saturday August 15, 2026 @09:28AM (#49310380)
You can take a picture of your filled out ballot with a cellphone. I don't see how there isn't already a very wide open door for coercion/vote purchasing. It's not 100% fool proof, but you don't need that to sway an election, you just need enough people to follow through.

But even with that, it seems like the better course of action is criminalizing such coercion (which is already illegal). Anyone doing something like that on a scale large enough to matter would be caught rather quickly.

Re:Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contribut... by markus92 on Saturday August 15, 2026 @09:43AM (#49310487)
There’s places where taking photos inside the voting box is illegal for this exact reason.
Re:Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contribut... by johndough on Saturday August 15, 2026 @09:56AM (#49310603)
This could be prevented if the government offered photos of ballots with votes for download. But generative AI can also fake it well enough these days. (Of course, this is less of a concern in countries where taking photos of ballots is not allowed.)