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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow SICK is it that I can get text confirmation
That my votes for Mike Moustakas to start for AL All-Star 3RD Baseman have been received and counted but I can get no such confirmation of my vote for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...then there would be a mechanism to buy and sell votes.
How sick would any of these scenarios be:
1. Abusive husband beats wife because she voted for the "wrong" candidate, or refuses to show him her vote confirmation.
2. Candidate's agents pay $X for each confirmed vote for that candidate.
Is that what you want?
But, yes, huge confirmed elections are held and counted every couple of minutes in this country - they are called "horse races". Through various on-track and off-track mechanisms, millions of votes are made, counted and confirmed, so that people can cash their bets.
The secret ballot is not a technological issue, but most people have not thought through the consequences of a non-secret ballot.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)There would be no way to know that the recorded result matched how you voted.
If they can hack voting machines (and whether they have or not, they certainly CAN) they can hack your text confirmation.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Machine-counted votes give no reassurance.
And refusing to let anyone examine the counting software because it's "proprietary"
(counting is SO complicated after all! ) is a virtual guarantee of cheating going on.
Why else would the government outsource such a simple system except to give the cheaters some legal cover with the intellectual property argument?
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)in most places you can get confirmation that you voted, and that your vote was counted.
Who you voted for is not disclosed becuse, as noted, the fact of voting isn't worth much, but there are people who would buy your vote - or beat a wrong vote out of you.