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by jwood27 1246 days ago
The same thing that prevents someone from buying your vote now - there would be no way to prove the delegation.
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Well, only kind of right? You can tell someone one thing then totally just go into the polling booth and vote for someone else, but liquid democracy means you literally just transferred your vote to someone else.
Well, except for the part about mail in ballots. You can sell your ballot and signed envelope to a person so they can guarantee the vote is cast the way they want.
> same thing that prevents someone from buying your vote now - there would be no way to prove the delegation

This is an oft-overlooked downside to mail-in ballots. (I still broadly support them.)