• @Godric
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    6825 days ago

    Boy oh boy, it sure is a mystery why democracies have people vote privately

    • @deafboy
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      1425 days ago

      The only thing worse than public voting is public voting that’s falsely advertised as private.

    • @[email protected]
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      1225 days ago

      You only get to vote privately because the system can still verify that each person only gets to vote once.

      There is no such mechanism on the internet. Anyone can make multiple accounts and vote multiple times.

      • @[email protected]
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        125 days ago

        Right. We are IDEALLY only identifiable by our content and where to reach us at for a given persona online.

        A contrary ideal for where votes are supposed to represent an actual plurality of stake holders in the social contract.

    • @sznowicki
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      425 days ago

      Yeah. For major things. For trivial stuff like choosing lunch place people usually do public voting.

    • @[email protected]
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      -224 days ago

      Wrong comparison. in state votes it’s done to prevent bribing here you can share your activity and create as many accounts as you want.

    • @rottingleaf
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      -1425 days ago

      To allow easier falsifications.

      • @mriormro
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        425 days ago

        No, that’s entirely wrong.

        • @rottingleaf
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          -725 days ago

          My comment is a specific application, and your comment is “no u wrong”.

        • @rottingleaf
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          124 days ago

          What it definitely does is prevent you from verifying vote results and specific votes. While people selling votes will (in our day) just make a photo and send it to their buyer.

          If by “other things” you mean violence against those voting “wrong” - yes, that’s a problem. When you invent a way to have a verified anonymous vote, let me know.