There is no such thing as “Privacy”.
There hasn’t been for longer than some people voting in the next election have even been alive.
I agree. I’m really very mixed on the whole thing.
If we believe that privacy is achievable, then we want security in place, and we want our election votes to be private, and all sort of “common sense” stuff. We deserve our privacy, don’t we?
But if the truth is that there just ISN’T any privacy, then what is the point? The security is simply inconvenience. The voting procedure is simply a black box in which you can’t tell for sure if they counted the results honestly.
It’s really hard, IMO, to know if privacy is at all real or simply a comfortable lie we tell ourselves.
But I will say this: voter fraud and political corruption would be non-existent if there was no attempt at privacy and everyone knew everything. Chief Justice John Roberts just bought a million dollar house. How did he manage that? I sure would like to know.