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Re: Open voting platform for the 2020 election - volunteers needed
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Chris Franklin |
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Re: Open voting platform for the 2020 election - volunteers needed |
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Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:33:41 +0200 (CEST) |
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 quiliro@riseup.net:
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)!
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References
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