If anyone is looking for a fun side-project, this sort of postal verification could be part of bootstrapping a citizen-controlled national digital identity syst

If anyone is looking for a fun side-project, this sort of postal verification could be part of bootstrapping a citizen-controlled national digital identity system. The system would also leverage the official gov election form that checks if you're registered to vote, resurfaced with an API. This approach has the interesting property that, in order to cheat this unofficial system, you've have to commit either mail fraud (interception) or vote fraud (fake entry in election registry). Canadian proof-of-concept here: https://github.com/patcon/id.c4nada.ca https://github.com/patcon/id.c4nada.ca Ping me on Twitter if you're interested in working on this in Canada or any other jurisdiction. Would be rad to create an auth system for citizen projects to validate identity/ward/district/state with high assurance. That way, user desires can be passed to reps with reasonable certainty that numbers reflect real voters. And could start doing fun stuff with encryption keys or keybase integration or things like that ;)