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0 pointssccxy9y ago0 comments

In e-voting you can change your vote unlimited times. I think it is pretty good approach against your example.

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No, I addressed this argument in my original comment above. If you need a password to change a vote, someone can take the password away from you after you voted the first time. If you can show up physically at the polling place and change your vote, your hypothetical corrupt employer can simply announce crunch time at work and effectively keep you on the premises. It might also be as simple as them not paying for the bus to to polling place, so you have no way to get there.

Strom9y ago

You're effectively making the case that e-voting is flawed, because a completely controlled slave who has Stockholm syndrome can't vote for whom they want.

1) It's possible to revote unlimited times. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you would get an opportunity to revote in private.

2) If your ID card gets taken away, you can get a new one from the government.

3) If you lack the funds for the necessary travel, the government will provide that.

4) If you're being held locked up against your will, you can call the police.

5) If you're worried about getting murdered after you visibly vote for someone who you don't want to, you can set up a cron job to change the vote after even if you're no longer breathing.

In addition. If there truly is such an adversary that can completely control your life & silence any requests for help, then that very same adversary is also capable of requiring you to wear a hidden live streaming camera when you go to paper vote, so that they can see you really cast your paper vote for the candidate they insist on.

Dreaming up such astronomical edge cases can be useful, but in regards to e-voting, I have yet to see a scenario that has a negative effect on e-voting while the same effect doesn't exist on classic paper voting.

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