• boydsterEnglish
    18·
    5 hours ago

    I totally hear that, but at the same time it’s really important for a functioning democracy that the vote be secret. For one, it empowers a suppressed class to vote against their suppressor’s interests without fear of retaliation.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      31·
      5 hours ago

      There is already a record of who voted for what, all of your fears could be taking place as things are now. Making it accessible to the person, even with hoops to jump through, would only be an improvement.

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 hours ago

        No, there’s not. There’s a record of who voted. There is a record of your political party in most states. There is no record of who you actually voted for.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 hours ago

          The majority of votes in the USA are electronically counted, and a ballot itself is a record of a vote as well. What there isn’t is a searchable index of who voted for what, and I apologize for my unclear language.

          But the likelihood of oppression based on availability of those vote records is still very much there even if the voter themself doesn’t have access.