But you can be coerced to give up that number. People can buy your vote and you can give them your number as proof. That’s a huuuuge problem. You should not be able to prove (to someone else) how you voted. Ever.
What you need is some kind of systeem that allows you to verify your vote, but which is useless to someone else. It’s probably possible. But your idea isn’t it.
You could literally just throw it away and then they wouldn’t be able to do anything. If someone is threatening you to vote a certain way and they’re doing this to enough people that it makes a change… we’ve got much bigger problems than vote tracking.
But you can be coerced to give up that number. People can buy your vote and you can give them your number as proof. That’s a huuuuge problem. You should not be able to prove (to someone else) how you voted. Ever.
What you need is some kind of systeem that allows you to verify your vote, but which is useless to someone else. It’s probably possible. But your idea isn’t it.
You could literally just throw it away and then they wouldn’t be able to do anything. If someone is threatening you to vote a certain way and they’re doing this to enough people that it makes a change… we’ve got much bigger problems than vote tracking.
Transparent urn and public counting ?