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by mpitt 3673 days ago
Not exactly, because of ballot secrecy. Nobody, not even you, can prove what you voted (or didn't vote) with a paper ballot. This is the primary countermeasure against coercion and bribery of the electors.

With e-voting, providing ballot secrecy becomes much more complex because at the same time you need to prove that every voted is counted as it was cast.
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Xylakant 3673 days ago
> Nobody, not even you, can prove what you voted (or didn't vote) with a paper ballot.

More importantly, nobody is allowed to enter the voting booth with you. However, there's absentee vote by letter in practically all european voting laws that I'm aware of and that can be used as an attack vector since you can fill it in at home.

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codesnik 3672 days ago
taking a selfie with your filled in ballot is easy measure for vote buyers. There also exists a practice of exchange ballots, when you go into the booth with already filled in ballot and have to bring back to buyer empty one as a proof. No system is perfect.
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