A QAnon conspiracy theory about election fraud is becoming a pro-Trump push for traceable ballots

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Pro-Trump contenders who maintain the 2020 presidential contest was "rigged" against the former president are shifting their focus to new election and ballot security measures anchored by online conspiracy theories.

One of the right's emerging favorites is traceable ballots, a combination of printed security paper and digital tracking that would allow a person to look up their ballots after being cast.

An "America First" coalition of secretaries of state candidates backed by former President Donald Trump are among those calling for election officials to adopt those traceable, watermarked ballots as a remedy to fraudulent or illegal voting – even in the absence of proof of widespread voter fraud.

The idea is especially attractive to right-leaning candidates who say it will secure U.S. elections and restore faith in the process as turnout woes plague Republicans, some of whom argue their base is being depressed by the false claims.

But critics warn traceable ballots have their recent roots in online conspiracy theories around an election where the current protections largely worked. Others, including election security advocates who are more sympathetic to the idea, fear it would also violate a person's right to cast a secret ballot, a mainstay of the U.S. democratic system for the last hundred years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-qanon-conspiracy-theory-about-election-fraud-is-becoming-a-pro-trump-push-for-traceable-ballots/ar-AAPVgYv

[70sEraVet]

1. I'm sure that they also want counties to post names, phone numbers, and addresse of election workers

[Midnight Writer]

2. And then the next fraudit team can gather info on how each individual person voted.

That would be valuable data if an unscrupulous actor decided to act in an unscrupulous way.

[slightlv]

3. That's just what I was thinking...

Then anyone has information on everyone who voted democratic. That could mean anything from threats and protests outside front doors to "purges" of the movie kind if they really want to get going. No thank you. Constitutionally guaranteed secret ballots must be maintained. Period. Otherwise, for these animals, ballots cast for the "wrong person" can become a license to kill.