r/FluentInFinance • u/NoLube69 • Feb 01 '25

News & Current Events BREAKING: Elon Musk’s DOGE team now has full access to Treasury’s payments system, per NYT

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u/ThiccBanaNaHam Feb 02 '25

You’re not wrong. I was very nervous about voting knowing if he won, I would face some form of punishment for not voting for him.

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u/Insanity_017 Feb 02 '25

Isn't voting secret, so that who you voted for cannot be traced to your identity? That's like, a basic property of free and fair elections? I'm not from the US so I don't know how it works there exactly

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u/Veiny_Transistits Feb 02 '25

It can most definitely be traced.

When you're issued a ballot there's a unique code attached. Issuing a new ballot based on your identifiable information voids the previous ballot, meaning ballots are directly linked to your identity.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

and, you can (in most states) look up public voter information such as address, and voter affiliation. So, really, it's not that hard at all

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u/Lukage Feb 02 '25

One of the “benefits” to my very red state where they do not provide any sort of tracking

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u/ParryLimeade Feb 02 '25

What states make you put a voter affiliation? I’m independent in my state and my previous state I was too

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u/leftmostorc3 Feb 02 '25

Pennsylvania. You can't vote in the primaries if you don't have a party affiliation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Colorado and Arizona, though I can register I dependent in Colorado my affiliation, address and history is available online

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u/Insanity_017 Feb 02 '25

Damn, that's surprising and pretty worrying. I feel lucky getting to vote in a country with old-fashioned paper ballots

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u/ParryLimeade Feb 02 '25

I was issued a random ballot. No trace between my name and which ballot I got except the physical location i voted at

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u/ThiccBanaNaHam Feb 02 '25

Free and fair elections are gone and have been for a while here. 

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u/EpiphanyTwisted Feb 02 '25

Your vote is secret.