Use a gift card and mail to a PO box service that is engaged under a pseudonym and paid for in cash. Gift cards can be purchased at most grocery outlets, again for cash and anonymously. If you are REALLY paranoid use a VM'd OS that you subsequently wipe on your local library Wi-Fi, or at McDonald's or even Starbucks. For the extreme tinfoil helmet, you can buy for cash a very cheap used laptop that you can dispose of AFTER the transaction, preferably in pieces in several different trash bins behind local grocery stores.
Use a gift card and mail to a PO box service that is engaged under a pseudonym and paid for in cash.
Of course the whole "Internet voting equals Internet buying" analogy is fatally flawed. That's because the store does not care who you are as long as you pay so it's willing to accept a gift card you bought anonymously. In contrast the government wants to restrict voting rights to its constituency so it will never let you vote without first providing some form of identification.
I did (nearly) everything you said already. And it Did Not work.
ebay would not allow the Visa gift card to be accepted until I attached my address to the card through the visa site. The visa site would not allow me to register on this site through an obscured IP.
It is my belief that you cannot purchase online in a private manner without committing fraud. Not because privacy requires fraud, but simply because companies make money from your lack of privacy. For example, you said that I should used a pseudonym
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when
you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
Will Internet Voting Endanger The Secret Ballot? (Score:-1)
No.
Is there any other questions??
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Yes.
Computer based voting of any kind is a bad idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
ARE there any other questions?
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Re: Will Internet Voting Endanger The Secret Ball (Score:0)
Must say you are a moron. Voting is meant to be anonymous. Can you Shop anonymously? If you can please let me know how so I can get goods for free.
Re: Will Internet Voting Endanger The Secret Ball (Score:3)
Use a gift card and mail to a PO box service that is engaged under a pseudonym and paid for in cash. Gift cards can be purchased at most grocery outlets, again for cash and anonymously. If you are REALLY paranoid use a VM'd OS that you subsequently wipe on your local library Wi-Fi, or at McDonald's or even Starbucks. For the extreme tinfoil helmet, you can buy for cash a very cheap used laptop that you can dispose of AFTER the transaction, preferably in pieces in several different trash bins behind local grocery stores.
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Use a gift card and mail to a PO box service that is engaged under a pseudonym and paid for in cash.
Of course the whole "Internet voting equals Internet buying" analogy is fatally flawed. That's because the store does not care who you are as long as you pay so it's willing to accept a gift card you bought anonymously. In contrast the government wants to restrict voting rights to its constituency so it will never let you vote without first providing some form of identification.
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You still need to give an address.... how hard is it to track down the purchaser if you have a physical address?
P.O. Box? Just find out who owns it or stake out the location and wait for the pick up.
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I did (nearly) everything you said already. And it Did Not work.
ebay would not allow the Visa gift card to be accepted until I attached my address to the card through the visa site. The visa site would not allow me to register on this site through an obscured IP.
It is my belief that you cannot purchase online in a private manner without committing fraud. Not because privacy requires fraud, but simply because companies make money from your lack of privacy. For example, you said that I should used a pseudonym