Reply #10: A system can probably be devised in which ballot secrecy is only

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compromised when the voter believes his/her vote was not counted as cast and challenges it.

BTW, in the Iowa primaries, they don't vote secretly. It might be instructive to see how that works. We've gotten some BIG losers out of that process lately, haven't we? I don't know if it's because of the lack of secrecy, but it could be! Peer pressure is a powerful thing.

And besides, there's vote selling, harassment, etc. once you can prove to third parties how you voted.

So any system must allow the voter to see that his vote was counted as cast, but not allow the voter to reveal his/her choices to anyone else except in the event of a discrepancy and then only to elections officials in order to challenge it. I think that could work.

Two separate public and private databases of some kind would be the nuts and bolts if anyone's interested.