• Serinus@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 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·
      5 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.

      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Back to school. Vote-buying breaks democracy. Not having proof of who you voted for makes vote-buying pointless. Yes, your vote could be miscounted. This is generally less of a problem than the general population being able to sell their votes and can be mitigated in a variety of ways which don’t tie votes to voters.