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by monocasa 2518 days ago
You open yourself to vote buying and voter cohersion attacks, historically the most common voting fraud mechanism in the states.
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any verifiable voting mechanism opens oneself up to vote buying.

if I can use homomorphic encryption to verify my vote I can give the same info needed (say this 128 bit number) to someone else.

Define "verifiable". There are absolutely schemes where I can't verify what my vote was after the fact, but can verify that it was counted.
verify that my vote was counted correctly. i.e. that my vote wasn't changed or fraudelently presented to me.
You can do that with quite a few pen and paper systems today, without being to verify what you voted for after the fact.