..and then you see people on Facebook bragging with more than one voting form/letter in their hands..
Not the best example of "unhackable" system...
Not the best example of "unhackable" system...
Once you enter the voting building, you give your ID, sign the register, go to the voting cell, put your vote in an envelope, give your sealed envelope to be counted in a sealed box that has a mechanical counter for each envelope it gets.
Unhackable, because anyone can check the counter, count the signatures, and participate to the closing count of cast votes.
The real issue is if you can get inscribed on two different voting neighborhoods though... is that what you describe? (which shouldn't happen, given how long it takes to get your name on one voting list, since the gvt probably crosses your name out of all other voting neighborhoods when you do)
That's racist. (According to some in the US)
EDIT: So how would you design a system where you don't need an ID to vote (like many places in the US)?
If anything just to avoid the time and energy spent insinuating things and discussing if IDs are racist or not.
A country like India with more poverty and issues like open defecation somehow managed to get everyone an ID but here it this insurmountable problem, that everyone talks about yet nothing is done about it.
Don't be so patronizing to minority groups, they are just as capable as everyone else and already have to get ID for numerous other activities.
The US is less racist than most other countries on Earth, yet somehow it is the US that couldn't properly implement voter ID cards?
Racism in America has dropped dramatically in the last 50 years according to multiple lines of research, the perception that racism is on the rise is false and misguided.
It's a shame voter ID can't be implemented on a nationwide basis in the US just because people have concerns that are longer valid.
We absolutely could properly implement voter ID. We just don’t.
Edit: I would encourage skeptics to look up the history of voter literacy tests. How can a literacy test be racist? Are you implying that minorities can’t learn to read? And yet they were highly effective at suppressing the minority vote for a long time.
Unusually, this links to the actual court result: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/29/us/document-A...
The bill was specifically and deliberately amended to choose only those specific forms of ID that African-Americans were least likely to hold.
This is not an impossible question by any means. You can absolutely design such a system. But the differences between that hypothetical system and the real systems used in the US are important and instructive.
You can only have one main residency, you cannot possibly be on two lists.
If you register for voting per snail mail you get pulled from your community list, if you come to vote the will know you mail voted and will be questioned by law enforcement.
If you want to show up twice law enforcement will get you out, if needed.
This is in a commune with ~1000 people, so it may be a bit different in bigger ones (but AFAIK, there's a certain limit to voter count at any voting point).
You effectively would need to corrupt >= 8 people (three election helpers are working any time, but they work in shifts, in total there 5 to 6 election helpers), as often outside law enforcement comes in this is particular hard to do. Also you get a fixed number of voting forms and all protocols are checked against by other gov. parts, so to pull this off without any notice would be close to impossible, IMO.
At least way easier to do this on proprietary, known error prone, voting machines... Get them open source, let them be verified and looked close upon by the public and some good pen-testers/security researches and you'd would have a really good system going....
Sort of similar to all the Republican shills who get caught trying to commit in person voter fraud while "proving" how easy it I'd to commit.
He was indeed convicted and he also didn't believe it was bad to show off like that.
For those who don't know, Switzerland sends all the material at home, you then can go to the ballot and post it or send it by post if it's not an important votation (if i remember correctly).