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> This is why, I think, the future is either putting your money (or at least provable identity) where your mouth is, or not being heard Oh, I assume this will
by withinboredom 3y ago
> This is why, I think, the future is either putting your money (or at least provable identity) where your mouth is, or not being heard
Oh, I assume this will be run by companies. What is stopping them from impersonating you? Or impersonating you after you're dead? How can we trust these companies not to sell access to identities? Further, why not sell/rent your access to your own identity?
- nine_k 3y agoIt's a good technical question. Partly it's audit: check some randomly chosen votes, look for anyone not remembering casting their vote. Partly it could be cryptography: you keep a private key and sign your vote with it. Your public key is stored by a trusted centralized institution, or several (see GitHub and signed commits), so anyone can verify your vote, but nobody can fake it.
- mauvehaus 3y agoVoting is anonymous to make it harder for someone to demand proof that you voted in accordance with their wishes. I wouldn't want my employer, for instance, to be able to verify that I voted for their preferred candidate for state representative and take retaliatory actions against me if I didn't.
- nine_k 3y agoI don't speak of general voting, like for President. I mean voting for various petitions, etc, the stuff outlined in the article. Better fraud protection during general elections would be great, too, but it's a different and more complex area.