> If the government creates the code and the protocols, they are hard to secure against the government itself. > Elections are the only time you do not trust y

> If the government creates the code and the protocols, they are hard to secure against the government itself. > Elections are the only time you do not trust your government because in elections you establish your trust. If you trust the government with elections that's a circular trust problem and it only needs to win once. I wholeheartedly agree. I think you may find a good read on electoral transparency which develops that further: > Olivier Belanger, Randi Markussen, Lorena Ronquillo, Carsten Schurmann, Framing Electoral Transparency: A Comparative Analysis of Three E-vote Counting Ceremonies, 2016. From the top thread, I thought you attacked the notion of a digital identity itself.