Timeline for Relationship between Anonymity and Untraceability
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| May 23, 2016 at 11:28 | comment | added | sampablokuper | "[Voting] ... is usually not anonymous: you have to prove [your] identity and rights [etc and these will be tracked, but] it can also be untraceable (as an additional property) in the sense that nobody could find out what you actually voted for." I think this conflates at least two separate things under the single word "voting". Registering to vote isn't anonymous or untraceable. Likewise requesting a ballot paper (which in some locales is required in addition to registering). But the ballot paper itself is anonymous, & hence untraceable to you (short of dusting for fingerprints, etc). | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | Christian Strempfer | I'll use an unsecured hotel wifi to hack your SE account. It's traceable to the hotel, but you'll still don't know who I am. | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 22:57 | comment | added | Mike McManus | @Michael: yes. In Washington state the registration and routing information and the voter's signature/affidavit all go on the outer envelope, while the ballot itself is normally separated from the outer envelope sealed in an inner privacy envelope. So it's fairly simple to ensure the two are separated before the ballot is counted. | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 12:48 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Michael I'm not aware of any mail-in voting system that's demonstrably untraceable and used in political elections (maybe in some geek clubs). That's why some locales don't do mail-in votes. | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 12:47 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 3:23 | comment | added | Michael | I have always wondered about this, especially if you mail your vote in. How does non-anonymous untraceable voting work, when your mail-in ballot has your name practically attached to the ballot? Do we have to just trust that the two get separated before your votes are actually looked at? | |
| S Dec 1, 2014 at 21:57 | history | suggested | LeopardSkinPillBoxHat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2014 at 18:53 | comment | added | stonemetal | In that last sentence did you mean untraceable rather than anonymous? | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 8:33 | history | answered | Stephane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |