shoot down this election solution

[garybeck]

5. here's the issue as I've heard

the only problem with something like my proposal above is that people can prove how they voted. when that happens, someone could pay you, or force you to vote a certain way and then when you can prove to them that you voted that way, they get what they want.

so, if you place your vote, and then share your secret code with someone paying you or forcing you to vote a certain way, then THEY can go online to see your ballot and verify.

to me this is not a huge concern. they could institute high penalties for paying or forcing anyone to vote a certain way. They could also make people check a box indicating no one paid or forced them to vote. that would cover it in my book.

then, open up the ballots to anyone who wants to see them. Let us all view and print and count them ourselves.

then we can stop worrying about the vote counting problems and go back to the issues that help us decide who to vote for.