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Also, it would be pretty easy to figure out who voted for who when they step out of the polling booth and the tally updates.

You could delay it a little but live updates is kind of a bad idea.

Minutely or hourly updates might be kind of cool but yeah bandwagoning would be an issue.

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>it would be pretty easy to figure out who voted for who when they step out of the polling booth and the tally updates.

I see this as a pro not a con. I want to be reassured that my vote was counted correctly. That is way more important to me than keeping my vote secret from anyone in the room.

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