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Boy oh boy, it sure is a mystery why democracies have people vote privately
The only thing worse than public voting is public voting that's falsely advertised as private.
You only get to vote privately because the system can still verify that each person only gets to vote once.
There is no such mechanism on the internet. Anyone can make multiple accounts and vote multiple times.
Right. We are IDEALLY only identifiable by our content and where to reach us at for a given persona online.
A contrary ideal for where votes are supposed to represent an actual plurality of stake holders in the social contract.
Its already not private
Yeah. For major things. For trivial stuff like choosing lunch place people usually do public voting.
Wrong comparison. in state votes it's done to prevent bribing here you can share your activity and create as many accounts as you want.
To allow easier falsifications.
No, that's entirely wrong.
My comment is a specific application, and your comment is "no u wrong".
No, it's to prevent people from buying/selling votes, amount other things.
What it definitely does is prevent you from verifying vote results and specific votes. While people selling votes will (in our day) just make a photo and send it to their buyer.
If by "other things" you mean violence against those voting "wrong" - yes, that's a problem. When you invent a way to have a verified anonymous vote, let me know.