On: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy

[Dove]

In a system where your vote can be verified, you can be coerced into voting a certain way.

[Bromskloss → Dove]

As a special case of this, one might see the mild "coercion" in simply being uncomfortable with going against the grain by voting for something that others strongly dislike.

[marcosdumay → Bromskloss]

The votes do not need to be public. It should only be verifiable to people that know your key.

That does not solve actual coercion, but honest peer pressure isn't a problem.

[yen223 → Dove]

In a system where your vote can't be verified, there's no way to assert that

- your vote went to the candidate that you chose

- all votes come from actual human beings

Politicians can rig votes without coercing anyone, so I guess that's a plus.

[imtringued → Dove]

That could be avoided by generating a new identity for each vote.