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Hillbilly77 said:
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The idea of ballots without serial numbers is to prevent voter intimidation.
Think of this: What if the Democrats of today knew who had voted against them by looking at "ballot registrations"? They could effectively target anyone not voting for them with their weaponized DoJ (even more so than they are now!).

But, there still needs to be a method to verify that only legitimate U.S. Citizens participate in the vote. Hence, ID the voter at the time they register to vote, and at the time they cast the ballot. This ensures fair and secure elections (theoretically).
 
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Grimscale said:
The idea of ballots without serial numbers is to prevent voter intimidation.
Think of this: What if the Democrats of today knew who had voted against them by looking at "ballot registrations"? They could effectively target anyone not voting for them with their weaponized DoJ (even more so than they are now!).

But, there still needs to be a method to verify that only legitimate U.S. Citizens participate in the vote. Hence, ID the voter at the time they register to vote, and at the time they cast the ballot. This ensures fair and secure elections (theoretically).
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It is basically impossible to have both traceable ballots and secret ballots.

Both are important, but secret is more so. Without secret, votes can be sold. Blackmail, intimidation, or extortion become possibilities.

You might be able to put together a system where individual voters can verify that their votes were counted properly, but as soon as you have a system where it's possible for them to prove (or disprove) that to someone else, then all the "bad stuff" of public ballots attaches.

Imagine the shit show if Antifa starts threatening to lynch anyone who doesn't vote the way they think they should.

At the same time BLM is literally paying homeless people to vote for their preferred candidates.
 
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