[E-voting] Minimum requirement to juge voting "technology"

[Ciaran Mac Lochlainn]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>If secrecy is such a vital matter, why don't you press
>for secret votes in the Dail?
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Because (in my opinion at least) secret votes in the Dáil would make a 
mockery of representative democracy.  I have a right to know how my 
local TDs voted on the issues that concern me.  I elected them to 
represent me, not themselves - or those they choose to reveal their 
votes to.

Until about ten years ago, Italy used secret voting in its parliament, 
and was the only Western democracy to do so.  They got rid of it after 
one too many corruption scandals.

Secret voting in the Dáil would make politicians much less responsive to 
public pressure on issues, without doing anything to protect them from 
vested interests "on the inside".