Italian preference votes could be audited via secret number sequences to verify vote sales

Evidence

But where trust and good faith do not exist and cannot be made to by our acting as though they did, we may wish to solicit advice from the underworld, or from ancient despotisms, on how to make agreements work when trust and good faith are lacking and there is no legal recourse for breach of contract. The ancients exchanged hostages, drank wine from the same glass to demonstrate the absence of poison, met in public places to inhibit the massacre of one by the other, and even deliberately exchanged spies to facilitate transmittal of authentic information. It seems likely that a well-developed theory of strategy could throw light on the efficacy of some of those old devices, suggest the circumstances to which they apply, and discover modern equivalents that, though offensive to our taste, may be desperately needed in the regulation of conflict. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 52 (#expands, via linked claim)

There are two quite distinct criteria for judging the efficacy of an inspection system, or for designing the system itself. One is how well the system gets at the truth in spite of efforts to conceal it; the other is how well it helps one to reveal the truth convincingly when it is in his interest to do so. The difference is like that between a scheme for discovering the guilty and a scheme for permitting the innocent to establish innocence. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 566 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Secret ballot strips voters of power to prove their votes — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 52; Verification systems serve either truth-detection or credible self-disclosure — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 566

Related

• Secret ballot strips voters of power to prove their votes (similarity 0.91)
• Verification systems serve either truth-detection or credible self-disclosure (similarity 0.84)
• Secret ballots protect voters by destroying evidence of their vote (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Secret ballot strips voters of power to prove their votes #expands (0.82) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 52
• Verification systems serve either truth-detection or credible self-disclosure #expands (0.75) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 566