[ExI] Immaculate Election

[William Flynn Wallace]

 What is the main argument
against the USA issuing national ID?  Stuart

All I know is that Robert Heinlein said that when nations started issuing
ID cards it was time to move on to another country.   bill w

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 11:08 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Earlier in this thread, Spike asked if any European countries used
> voting machines. While Italy and the UK do not, it turns out that
> Estonia goes even further and votes over the Internet and apparently
> quite successfully.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia
> https://www.ria.ee/en/news/e-voting-too-secure.html
>
>
> They call their system E-voting and it works because all Estonians
> have national ID smartcards that are tied into a nation-wide public
> key infrastructure. It allows Estonians to remotely verify their
> identity for all manner of transactions including voting.
>
> Why can't we have something like that? What is the main argument
> against the USA issuing national ID?
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
>
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