Oddbean new post about login | logout So Vitor, How about you brainstorm on how America can utilize Nostr as the tech used for secure voting in elections.. I can't help but think there is a way. One vote, one private/public key. I'd think with IRS records related to taxpayer I.D.s to verify each publ/private key, the verification would be there. One Public/Private key created for one social security number. It just seems to me this would work. What do you think?
Private keys don't add much to voting. It's the same issue that blockchain people tried to apply their chain to voting. It's cool. But it doesn't solve much.
The I.R.S.?! Social security numbers? You still trust the government? Study history and you may learn that voting has been fraudulent from the beginning. The U.S. Constitution itself was passed by shady means, by only a fraction of the citizens, after the Founding Fathers had met in secret, with the records of their meeting not published for decades thereafter. Elections and "just electing the right people" aren't going to save us. nostr:nevent1qqsdcmpteaschkfsa39uqy5dvyma4990vw59fxkqp4neaeyr0khrp2qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsd7yvc3rm2g4c26f5m4mcpeaqfpf8dqry50863junsnfa58fkq3gqrqsqqqqqpxxkae7
The govt agency in charge of "verification" would just become suddenly extremely powerful. No way to sprinkle cryptography & suddenly make centralized shitcoin like architechture fair & just.
The IRS logs would be the verification needed. Right? How is the verification done today? How powerful are those processes and who's running them now? Couldn't each verified social security number be directed to "Nostrlection" the Election Client, to open their election account? We'd all need to know the relays charged with the vote..Would we have election relays or does that even matter? I'm spit balling here as you can probably tell, but it just seems there has to be a process. What you say about verification is definitely something to brain storm over, but somehow I keep coming back to the one social security number, one public/private key. We're all registered right now to vote.. The problem is, so is my dead uncle!! What kind of steps would we need to make this happen? Thanks for the thoughts. Nostr is amazing..
Local district managers check a list. IDs are not checked in most places & Dems have worked hard to make voter ID laws sounds terrible, but that with hand counting & all paper ballets would be the best way to keep things as honest as they can be. But we have seen that even the people involved locally can be convinced they are saving the world by cheating the results. Currently voting machine manufacturers have a ton of power behind the scenes. It seems that they sell outcomes to the highest bidders for the regions that have electronic voting.