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But pgz specifically said that the votes could be kept anonymous.

Yeah but the people corrupting you, would ask you for your sha as confirmation.

Here in Italy for example it's forbidden to bring your smartphone into the voting cabin, because the Mafia was asking for photo proofs.

So esrauch found a great counter to my idea.

If parties are corrupt enough to require a picture, and voters willing to engage in this corruption, how do you, realistically, prevent this from happening?

Body cavity searches?

That the Mafia can buy people to vote for their preferred candidates I think shows a failure of the political class. Why haven't politicians been able to deliver a government where what they're proposing is more valuable than a few dozen to hundreds of euros?

Fill out a Mafia-friendly ballot, take your picture, then spoil it and request a new ballot.

My general opinion is that mafiosos are clever and would already have figured out a way to get around such tactics.

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