That’s illegal in most places. Votes are anonymous specifically because people have been threatened to vote certain ways in the past. If you aren’t given proof of voting a specific way you can’t be forced to vote a specific way.
That’s illegal in most places. Votes are anonymous specifically because people have been threatened to vote certain ways in the past. If you aren’t given proof of voting a specific way you can’t be forced to vote a specific way.
thefactremains@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also because it’s an effective way to prove you voted a certain way to a vote buyer.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s stopping this now? Vote buying would happen regardless of a system.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
when votes are anonymous you can just not give a fuck about what they paid you to vote, you can take as many bribes as you want and vote for yourself regardless, thus people don’t really bother buying votes.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Musk literally bought peoples votes…there are plenty of people who have no morals and absolutely would vote how they’re paid.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can pay someone to vote a specific way, but with the current system, there doesn’t exist a way for you to verify that they actually voted how you told them to.