An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot
blog.citp.princeton.edu23 points by leecoursey 2 days ago
23 points by leecoursey 2 days ago
When I hit the term "load-bearing" in the first sentence my mind immediately turned off. Had to forcibly reengage in reading. Claude trauma is real.
> this allows you to know whether your neighbor voted, but never who they voted for.
There's probably an angle I'm not thinking of here, but imho, it's absolutely not John Q. Public's damned business what a person does or does not do on election day.
I was thinking the same. It's not as if visibility into whether someone voted or not has driven voter turnout significantly. Hell, I'd assumed this was private until I learned otherwise recently.
But it's such a specific structure, clearly there was an objective in mind when it was imlpemented.
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