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by rspeer 3120 days ago
> First off, I hope you realize that in the current paper systems that your "union boss" could literally walk down to the voting station themselves and give them your name & birthday and just submit votes on your behalf without needing to "coerce" or "buy" any votes.

Your threat model is nonsense.

Yes, people do commit fraud in elections, but they do it as insiders where they have the opportunity to covertly meddle with large numbers of votes.

They do not do it by walking into a precinct in plain sight and claiming to be someone else, risking everything for the chance to cast one vote, unless they are very, very dumb.