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[Comment-Mac] Secret ballots



Kent,

The problem with roll call as I see it is that it permits vote
buying--"contracts" can be formed with verification that a vote has been
delivered.  If a secret ballot is used it's much more difficult to buy (or
coerce, for that matter) votes.  ...JZ


Jon Zittrain
Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
zittrain@law.harvard.edu