• GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    They can tell who votes. Your entire premise is based on a belief that votes are anonymous. They aren’t. They are pretected from the public. If you have ever worked in election, which I have, you would know that. You have to cross reference if someone voted twice, are alive, or even registered in the county they voted in. There are computers that verify electronic bullets and there are batch audits. No one is ever allowed to be alone even with one ballet. Everything is done in a team. If your partner calls in sick, you’re the third wheel to another team.

    Just because the public doesn’t know doesn’t mean the government doesn’t know.

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      14 days ago

      Votes are anonymous. You can tell who voted, but not what they voted for. It’s crucial for the fairness of elections that a vote cannot be definitively connected to the individual who cast it; if you could, you could coerce or retaliate.

      And all of the things you mention are the trust OP is talking about. You were a trusted person in that situation. The process increases and validates trust.

    • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      Oh man are you confused. For everyone else this person doesnt know how voting works.

      Voting in the states is 100% anonymous across the board. The data trail stops after a person is signed in at the polls. There is zero information on a ballot to identify you.

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          12 days ago

          🤦 no you havent or your state has some weird laws. which state are you need lets go look at their ballot. this is easily disproved.