Receipts will be a sea change for vote selling. It doesn't happen much
now because it is all risk no reward to the buyer who has no way of
knowing how the seller actually voted. A receipt removes all risk
guaranteeing the buyer gets what they paid for.

Without receipts, the buyer has to seek out voters in advance. With
receipts, the buyer just stands outside the polling place and buys a
sure thing after the vote is cast.

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Jose" wrote in message
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In any case, the issue is whether or not the vote the voter =thinks=
is cast, is =actually= the vote that gets counted. This is
independent of paper receipts to the voter.

Agreed. My point is (still) that giving the vote a receipt isn't
going to affect the issue of vote selling very much. There's not much
to prevent vote selling now, other than the risk of being found out,
as it is now. Handing a receipt to a voter isn't going to shift the
problem much, given how wide open it already is.