On 2020-11-10 08:58, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Cryptography unfortunately can't stop the dead from voting.
Another problem is that cryptographic votes can easily be sold or stolen - we already have massive ballot harvesting, for example everyone in every old person's home in a county, by amazing coincidence, applying for an absentee ballot at the exact same time, different people in different nursing homes all happen to take action simultaneously. How is someone in an old person's home going to secure their cryptographic keys? Of course this would not be a problem with sovereign corporations, because a share is a vote controlling assets, and you are supposed to be able to buy and sell your vote. I like Moldbug's idea of sovereign corporation whose product is the protection of people and assets. Democracies have a long and disastrous history. They work for a little while, work great, unlike socialism where people usually start going hungry the second harvest after socialism was instituted. But they end horribly, with a mob of degenerates on welfare being manipulated by the shapers of public opinion, and eventually who is in charge is actually settled by frequent violence, rather than by voting.