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[QUOTE=Steve Jordan;283674]
Of course, to make the system more secure and direct-vote would mean more secure personal identification, and probably a national ID, and right now the ACLU and Big-Brother-phobic citizens are making tighter ID security difficult. (Heck, they didn't ask to see my ID when I voted... I literally could have been anybody. What kind of a voting system is that?)
We would probably also need a more secure communications system (phone, web), capable of positively identifying a user in realtime... and here, the same privacy concerns apply.
Then, the system has to be designed to make every individually-recorded vote an anonymous vote... in other words, erase the person's ID and leave just the vote behind. And somewhere in there, each person needs a receipt to prove they voted as they did, a receipt that also leaves no ID trail behind... or goes to some organization that can be entrusted to keep the ID details and never release them...
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Personally I think we already have a national ID even though it's not stated as such - you SS. number. If you look at it, the number is used for just about everything. Where I work it WAS used as your employee #, most medical plans use it as ID, It can be used in Mass. (unless it was changed since I lived there) as the drive license #, it's your taxpayer ID number, credit report ID, etc.
The town I live in now in PA issues you a ballot with and ID # that is not recorded when they check off your vote. You retain a stub with that ID # on it as proof of ballot - I think something of that nature could be used,maybe a receipt printed from the voting machine ala ATM with a ID # and how you voted in case a check was needed.
Oh well!
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