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Honestly, the only way to prevent election rigging is to associate each vote with a key, make the key-vote-district database public and give each voter a copy of their vote keys.

If each vote is verifiable to the voter and the whole database is public, then we can have independent analysis done on the votes and no vote rigging is possible, except for creating additional fake keys.

And we can fix that problem simply by making the keys associated with a voter registration, which requires an ID. Same way we do now. Granted, that's still limited by the issues with paper ballots.

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