Thank you Chris for thinking about democracy as a result of libre software.
I also like your campaign. If I would live in the USA, I would vote for you for your healthy social values. Please consider that voting electronically would reveal the identity of voters and direction of their votes individually. Perhaps providing a token to vote and making it impossible to identify specifically with the voter's choice would work to preserve privacy. But I am not clear how or if that would work. Thank you for your kind words and suggestion. Using a token is definitely a possibility, and, used in combination with other technologies as well as the incorporation of time and method as variables, we’d already be most of the way to a reasonably-secure solution. It’s important to remember that, for this first iteration, the platform doesn’t have to be impossible to hack. It just has to be un-hackable within a given time frame — similar to how 2FA works. In fact, there are many possibilities that will work. As you correctly point out, identity is quite important. I take identity security very seriously as an end goal, but the context here is, fortunately, less demanding than one might think. The U.S. is so polarized at this point that most people are very open about who they support and who they don’t support. This gives us some flexibility and the possibility of a good and very useful end product even if identity security isn’t perfected yet. (The level of security at the time of release will, of course, be fully and obviously disclosed so that people can choose to participate or not based on what is best for them.) *The high-order bit / priority is having true voting information as a check on the official results*, and I am very confident we can achieve this in time. It's important to remember that identity and intent (the two primary factors here) are processed billions of times daily in the form of credit card transactions, so this project is absolutely feasible with the proper focus and effort. Thank you again for your response. Take care, Chris Franklin ByThePeople2020 | A Presidential Campaign for Democracy PO Box 372 Unicoi TN 37692 FEC ID C00743997 [1]ByThePeople2020.org Jul 23, 2020, 11:18 PM by [email protected]: Thank you Chris for thinking about democracy as a result of libre software. I also like your campaign. If I would live in the USA, I would vote for you for your healthy social values. Please consider that voting electronically would reveal the identity of voters and direction of their votes individually. Perhaps providing a token to vote and making it impossible to identify specifically with the voter's choice would work to preserve privacy. But I am not clear how or if that would work. Keep on hacking (using wit for playfully solving problems)! _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss References 1. https://www.bythepeople2020.org/
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