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    GenerationExile: Rook Parliament

    Online voting by verified individuals

    Started by: Tony Fisk Raves:10 Badge Winner! Longbroading

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    How do displaced people retain a voice? Superstruct is at http://www.superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/128

    The idea, growing in response to the shrill and irresponsible cases of \\\'trial by twitter\\\' allows more serious lobby groups to form. Unlike twitter, individuals have verifiable credentials and \\\'reputation\\\'. In some cases, the topic of discussion may bypass traditional legislature. (So, I\\\'m brainstorming!)

    surely this is superstruct waiting to be started

    One thought is international identification papers... but that frightens me. I could see how passports could be used to identify nationality, but those who have been displaced by inclimate changes in weather aren\\\'t exactly afforded the leasure to seek governmental identification before closing up shop and migrating.

    I\\\'m cautiously optimistic about such an idea. An online or database system would allow an incredible number of refugees and nomads to keep a say in the way their (admittedly out of sorts) countries pull themselves together. The one thing tugging at my mind is the growing rash of online attacks and the increasing sophistication of both encryption and decryption measures. As we know, adding complexity increases the number of failure points on any kind of system. What kind of security measures could possibly stop all forms of data loss, dishonest voting, or system confusion?

    Considering the proliferation of mobile devices as primary means of internet access for most dispossessed populations, couldn\\\'t we somehow tie identity verification into mobile internet access?

    SEHI Hexayurt Project has addressed the identification problem with the CheapID (http://superstruct.wikia.com/wiki/CheapID and http://guptaoption.com/cheapid/). It\\\'s been the only \\\"governmental\\\" identification in DCAR for at least a few years.

    Actually, I addressed problems of identity some years ago, following the Diebold scandals. (http://castinglight.blogspot.com/) (The issue is in verifying the verifiers, I think!) Thanks, Phil, I think this is a definite superstruct candidate

    With voting, it always seemed to me like a paper trail was the only way to verify an election. Otherwise, it is very difficult to trace what happened in an electronic voting machine.

    Maybe we need to have some kind of ID card that is not tied to any national or international database. Sort of like a Smart Card, that has an encrypted chip on it.

    The non-profit, non-partisan Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has launched a dynamic new website to help safeguard the fairness and integrity of US elections, using the power of citizen journalism. The Election Protection Wiki is now online at ElectionProtectionWiki.org or EPWiki.org. It enables citizens, journalists and government officials to actively monitor the electoral process in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. CMD and its community of volunteer editors will continue to improve, expand and update the EP Wiki beyond the upcoming November 4th election. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Election_Protection_Wiki

    Steve, you miss the point. This system is not in a \\\'voting machine\\\' it is a web application. The idea was to allow people to validate their vote, either by storing locally, or by logging in and checking. (officials may be able to check that you voted, but nobody else would be able to check *how* you voted.)

    Superstruct OpenID is working on the problem of open-source, non-governmental identification and confidence verification! Come help us out!

    The United Registration Service (http://www.superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/226) is also seeking to facilitate the validation of identity and electoral registration in partnership with OpenID. By creating an international system of demographic/biometric/civil registration, it wouldn't matter where in the world individuals placed their vote/gave birth/registered a death/etc - the information would be stored virtually, monitored by trained Registrars (verifiable by their high TrustNet credentials).

    Superstruct OpenID sounds like a really good idea.

    Have you guys checked out CheapID? It's an interesting take on a similar problem, you can link to it from the wikia. But CheapID still uses governmental databases in order to do identity verification (even if the biometric info is stored internationally,) and I think we need to decentralize even further. Let people have accurate, verifiable confidence metrics with stuff they build in their living rooms.




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