In the UK lists of voters marked with who did and did not vote are called "marked registers". They are available to political parties and can be used to check that no-one has voted on behalf of people who don't vote for religious or other reasons.
In a system where there are no ID checks on voters I don't see how else you can prevent impersonation of voters - obviously that isn't needed in our elections because you can only vote when logged in.
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By the way, my understanding is that the practice of generating a public list of voters who cast ballots, while keeping the nature of their votes private, is relatively common in election processes in general. In the United States, political parties use this information for their "get out the vote" campaigns so that they know which of their likely supporters have yet to vote.
In UK political elections I think that would be illegal...{{citation needed}}
Thanks, Mike
On 4 Jun 2015, at 11:39, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
In the UK lists of voters marked with who did and did not vote are called "marked registers". They are available to political parties and can be used to check that no-one has voted on behalf of people who don't vote for religious or other reasons.
In a system where there are no ID checks on voters I don't see how else you can prevent impersonation of voters - obviously that isn't needed in our elections because you can only vote when logged in.
Thanks WSC, that's interesting, and rather unexpected to hear! Thanks for the info, and apologies, to Risker for debating it! (and to everyone else for the somewhat off-topic discussion...) I'll have to go improve the relevant Wikipedia articles now...
Thanks, Mike
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