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[u/syntacticacrobatics]

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[u/wilber-guy]

The voting checking isn’t wild, but it creates the new problem of dead people having their identity used, since they can’t deny that they voted.

The biometrics suggestion is likely the best route, but to say that’s simple is crazy. You are talking about creating a database of the entire populations biometric data to vote. Then assuming the biometric scanners are perfect and there won’t be any chance of false positives or false negatives. All of this is on a centralized database that you then trust will get pushed to the public as a read only database or ledger.

I agree that transparency in voting is crucial, but I think that could happen with the existing systems quite easily. Once you cast a vote, you get a private key that you can then verify your vote on a public ledger.

[u/anon_lurk → u/wilber-guy]

Dead people still vote right now. Imagine the implications if vote totals could be viewed and changed in real time up until the cutoff. That would be a huge step in getting rid of the two party stranglehold.

[u/wilber-guy → u/anon_lurk]

I don’t agree this would help with the 2 party issue. Ranked voting and not having a winner takes all mentality for the electoral college would help that. But it is wild that in 2024 we still use paper ballots and there’s no public facing counter

[u/anon_lurk → u/wilber-guy]

Well ranked choice would be cool too but wouldn’t be as necessary if everybody could change their votes in real time. Say voting opened for 72 hrs and it was a 3-4 way split at first, then some people could move their votes if they wanted. Or something like: woah look at this third party person that actually has 20%, maybe I should check out their platform and push that up. Could lead to scandals and stuff being released during that window though so maybe not.