[ExI] Immaculate Election

[Dave Sill]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 10:10 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Americans have the right to refuse any form of personal identification.
> Currently it isn’t used even for in-person voting in California.  Many
> activities do require identification, such as driving, but voting does not.
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Having an ID and being required to produce one are not the same.


> Article 4 of the constitution forbids the government from requiring
> identification just to exist.
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Can you be more specific? I don't see it.


> How well I understand that.  However, we have always had face
> recognition.  Now we have the technology to automate that process.  It
> looks to me like there is no logical way to make use of face rec tech
> illegal.
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It's easy to pass laws making it illegal.

>…It's OK to distrust the outcome…
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> Ja, distrust is growing steadily.
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But there's no evidence of voting problems outside of wacky conspiracy
theories.

 >… if there's evidence of a problem…
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> The growing distrust is evidence of a problem.  The system lacks
> transparency.
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Yes, surely transparency would solve the problems we've seen. :-)

>…Every challenge to the 2020 election was thrown out of court because of
> the lack of evidence.
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> What we need is evidence that would lead to more public trust.  I haven’t
> seen that evidence, but I have seen plenty of evidence of reduced public
> trust.  The system lacks transparency, which leads to public distrust.
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More transparency would convince reasonable people but it would have no
effect on unreasonable people. I see no indications of trust issues from
reasonable people.

-Dave
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