I don't think the Sharpie is the problem since the back of the ballot is blank, but at the same time, I've never used a Sharpie before in an election in Canada - I've always been handed a short pencil.
I asked for a receipt for my ballot and the guy said "it doesn't work like that". Meanwhile there was an entire string of receipts hanging out of the machine right in front of us.
You can't have proof of who you voted for because that would destroy privacy and allow you to sell your vote. This is exactly why mail in ballots should be illegal.
That can be resolved with block chain. Everyone gets a receipt of their vote which has a unique number. Ever vote should then be publicly broadcast. showing this unique number & how you voted. If you check & yours doesn't match you go, with your receipt & have it rectified. No 3rd parties needed, that's it
That makes sense. I wonder what the receipts hanging out of the machine were for.
I hate that this country has expanded mail-in voting so much, too. How people can't see the potential for fraud there is so short-sighted (or purposeful).
I don't think the Sharpie is the problem since the back of the ballot is blank, but at the same time, I've never used a Sharpie before in an election in Canada - I've always been handed a short pencil.
I asked for a receipt for my ballot and the guy said "it doesn't work like that". Meanwhile there was an entire string of receipts hanging out of the machine right in front of us.
You can't have proof of who you voted for because that would destroy privacy and allow you to sell your vote. This is exactly why mail in ballots should be illegal.
That can be resolved with block chain. Everyone gets a receipt of their vote which has a unique number. Ever vote should then be publicly broadcast. showing this unique number & how you voted. If you check & yours doesn't match you go, with your receipt & have it rectified. No 3rd parties needed, that's it
That makes sense. I wonder what the receipts hanging out of the machine were for.
I hate that this country has expanded mail-in voting so much, too. How people can't see the potential for fraud there is so short-sighted (or purposeful).