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Re:Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a ... by thegeomaster on Sunday July 27, 2014 @07:41AM (#8092503)
This. I live in Serbia and it's the same thing. They approach you as you're entering a voting location and offer you as little as €20 in exchange for a vote, and they ask you to take a smartphone photo of the voting piece of paper (dunno the right term in English) as proof.

Not to draw discussion to political affairs, but literally nobody I personally know has ever expressed nothing but contempt for the currently leading party here, yet they have amassed over 50% of all the votes on the latest elections. I suspect a lot of it was via these methods. So a fraud-intolerant voting system would help, but not tremendously so.

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Re:Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a ... by atmosx on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:07PM (#8093101)
See? Now imagine with something bitcoinesque. They will ask you hashes, etc. Then they will use software to measure votes on the fly :-)

ps. There's no software that can fix a rogue voter.

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