Brent Meeker <meekerdb@verizon.net> wrote:
Andy Latto wrote:
There are two downsides to that. One downside is shared with absentee voting -- the voter could have been coerced or rewarded to vote in a specific way. The advantage of in-person voting is that that's not possible, at least not unless the coercer or rewarder hooks the voter up to a reliable lie detector.
I, not Brent, wrote the above.
Or asks for a cel phone video of the ballot being marked.
Not possible here in Virginia. You mark the ballot however your coercer or rewarder wishes, take a photo of it, then take the ballot to the poll worker and tell her that you made a mistake. She will discard the spoiled ballot and hand you a new one, which you then mark however you like. I assume the same would be true in most US states. And that the coercer or rewarder would know this, hence wouldn't bother.