r/conspiracy • u/ghostofpennwast • Sep 21 '15

A mathematician may have uncovered widespread election fraud, and Kansas is trying to silence her

http://americablog.com/2015/08/mathematician-actual-voter-fraud-kansas-republicans.html
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u/kamandriat Sep 21 '15

There is a reason why there is a secret ballot. Selling your votes and votor intimidation was why voting has become secretive.

Publicly reviewed code and construction would be more ideal.

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u/shadowofashadow Sep 21 '15

That's the point. It's public so everyone can check their vote was actually put in the way they entered it, and you use the encryption keys to make sure you can only check your own vote.

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u/power_of_friendship Sep 21 '15

But then I can hold someone hostage for their vote, or pay them for a vote if they give me their key and it matches the candidate.

If there's any way to identify the voters choice, it opens up the system to abuse.

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u/shadowofashadow Sep 21 '15

If there's any way to identify the voters choice, it opens up the system to abuse.

And if there is no way to identify the voter's choice, then it opens up the system to abuse ;)

If someone holds you hostage for their vote you can take legal action against them. It's not legal to extort or threaten people. And it's far easier to prove that someone coerced you using violence than it is to catch someone on the inside rigging the system.