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You generally do not want to know who voted for which candidate. E.g. voting should be anonymous.


I'm pretty sure voting isn't 100% anonymous in the UK - it isn't public but don't the ballot papers have a unique serial number on them?

As for collecting the cash prize - we could make people select if they want it anonymously or not (like the lottery).


The main reason for the secret ballot is to prevent vote buying. With the secret ballot, there's a low incentive to buy someone's vote, because there's no way to make sure they held up their side of the deal. Under your plan, candidates could offer a big multiple of the cash prize to the voter whose ballot was selected, if they win.


Make the offering of such cash inducements a serious criminal offense and offer a very high reward (millions) for any voter who acts as a witness for the successful prosecution of a candidate. If voters are simply doing it for the money they could take the bribe from the candidate and then dob them in and collect the reward.


Bitcoins ! :P




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