Comment Registration Order != Vote Order (Score 1) 256
I don't see how this is nearly as scary as indicated. Yes, you can figure out when somebody picked up their ballet, and you can also tell what order the ballets were cast in. But those two numbers don't directly relate. There could be some interesting statistics there, but nothing that definitively says who voted for whom.
*Anecdote Alert* During the last election whilst voting in my small south-eastern Ohio precinct I watched the 5 people behind me in line vote and cast their ballets before me. Since this all happened on my way to work (7:45am) I was single handedly responsible for destroying this correlation for the vast majority of the voting public. I can't imagine I am the only slow voter, so one has to assume all the records are similarly offset.
*Anecdote Alert* During the last election whilst voting in my small south-eastern Ohio precinct I watched the 5 people behind me in line vote and cast their ballets before me. Since this all happened on my way to work (7:45am) I was single handedly responsible for destroying this correlation for the vast majority of the voting public. I can't imagine I am the only slow voter, so one has to assume all the records are similarly offset.
