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Are you Mexican? Our system is the same, but a critical factor helps it. Every citizen has a voting credential, and every booth has a list of voters. You can't vote without your id, and while you can vote in secret, you can only vote in your designated booth.

This gives the system its agility. Our recent presidential election had a reliable statistical advance (PREP) at 23:00 the same day, and the next day every single vote of every remote booth was fully accounted, and the result confirmed the PREP.

The Mexican electoral system is surprisingly effective, yet we have the same core problem of democracy: we need better candidates and less gullible voters :/



This thread [1] on /r/Mexico made me think that voting credentials don't work very well. I haven't read any technical analysis of the system, but everyone in the thread is talking about how easy it is to vote multiple times.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/mexico/comments/9rcyyt/ah_caray_no_...


Close, Spaniard! But it works here as you describe (even to the last sentence, unfortunately!).


Not even the Greeks have managed to solve that problem. And they invented democracy!




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