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by kylewatson 689 days ago
The website says that your vote is last-write-wins. I think the idea is I could sell my vote and vote for A, then later re-vote for B. Since you can't trust that I won't just re-vote it won't be worth paying for.

But if you held a gun to my head and made me vote at 18:59, with polls closing at 19:00, then I guess it would work. Hell, if you held a gun to my head and had me vote a week early and then blew my brains out, that would probably also keep me from voting again.

So it's not complete, but neither is the current system. You could hold a gun to my loved-ones head and tell me to go vote for B in our current system. I could photograph the ballot from the box, cellphones are small these days. Or if I vote by mail I could easily prove to you I voted for B so you would let the hostage free.

So I guess it actually is an improvement over the status quo.

2 comments

You don't need any guns here. Just call your employees and make them vote on their phone in your presense. Also lie that you have people able to see how they voted. Also give them some money so that they feel themselves as accomplice.
hm - do random end times solve that particular issue?