> and I can securely communicate with people At best, we have achieved this with major caveats such as: a) Only if your device is not compromised b) You trust

> and I can securely communicate with people At best, we have achieved this with major caveats such as: a) Only if your device is not compromised b) You trust a CA to verify the identity of the remote host c) You trust whatever cert/key you see the first time for a given entity Even in your proposed solution you have replaced one hard problem (voting) with another (key distribution & mgmt) and completely ignored people's desire for elections to have certain other properties (anonymous, uncoerced).