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There doesn't even need to be a central database of every citizen. Distributed generation of unique identifiers is a more or less solved problem.

• kgwgk 7y ago
  How does the distributed generation of unique identifiers help to keep track of who has voting rights?
  • kijin 7y ago
    State and/or municipal authorities could be tasked with generating identifiers and signing them cryptographically, so that any voting station can verify whether a given identifier is genuine. The federal government doesn't need to keep a central registry of all identifiers, only a list of public keys used by states and municipalities. Obviously I'm not aware of any country doing things in such a convoluted way. But if Americans really don't want there to be a central registry of everyone's identity, modern computer science and cryptography could help.
    • cdash 7y ago
      You expect that over a hundred years we will manage to keep all private keys used secret?