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0 pointsalasdair_6y ago0 comments

To corrupt the vote, just offer some money for every empty ballot that gets sent to you to fill in and mail. There are a lot of people who would trade their ballot for a $20 bill.

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catalogia6y ago· 1 in thread

Good luck scaling that far enough to make a difference, without at the same time broadcasting your intentions to everybody.

alasdair_OP6y ago

Just give a website address that displays a rotating physical address in Russia or China. Rely on the free PR from all the news stories about how terrible it is to scale with minimal "marketing" costs.

If you picked the right districts, it wouldn't even cost that much to tilt the votes in your favor. At $50/ballot you'd almost certainly get 11,000 extra votes in Michigan - enough to swing the state in the last election at a total cost of just over half a million dollars.

This ease of abuse is one of the many, many reasons that I support a single, national vote for president over per-state winner-take-all electoral college voting.

fg6hr6y ago

Some of these $20 bills would get reported to FBI. The probability is tiny, but it grows exponentially with the number of participants.

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