[ExI] Immaculate Election

[Stuart LaForge]

If we only need sufficient transparency in our elections to allow  
reasonable people to be satisfied as to its legitimacy, then what is  
wrong with an open-source cryptographic public key system tied to  
national ID or biometric eigenfaces for that matter?

For example, you could require all online voting systems to have a  
camera and use facial recognition and private key to identify the  
voter, and then hash their face for the public ledger block-chain  
which records their vote so that any guy with a web-enabled device can  
audit the vote counts.

Make it open source so that the whole world has access to the code.  
Invite the whole world to beta-test the software and try to break it.  
Whatever comes out the other end of that crucible might be worthy to  
determine the leader(s) of the free world in a transparent but modern  
voting system. Paper ballots can become worn out, lost, or stolen over  
repeated recounts while a blockchain cannot.

Stuart LaForge


Quoting Spike and Dave:

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> From: Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com>
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>>> ?  The system lacks transparency, which leads to public distrust.
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>> ?More transparency would convince reasonable people?
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> Good, that?s all we need.
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>> ?but it would have no effect on unreasonable people?
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> No need to bother with them.  We are looking to increase the  
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>> ? I see no indications of trust issues from reasonable people.
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> -Dave
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> Good then you should be all for increased transparency in order to  
> maintain trust from reasonable people.  So am I.  This process needs  
> a lot more transparency.
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> spike