Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power.
“We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,” he said during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We’re going to start with an executive order that’s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots.”
What if we could give each citizen a crypto-signed coin at citizenship registry through citizenship tests or birth, it was required to be destroyed at death, and kept in line with an accurate population census?
Or do I just not understand crypto? Would they just be able to be hacked later as our algorithms improved? Or will the seemingly farther and farther invention of quantum computers (just like anything else that isn’t directly related to AI) be too much of a risk to rely on technology at all?
Idk man I just wish we could come up with some fair way to solve SOME things where the billionaire “meek” inherit the earth by delving into their bunkers and launching nukes… and I can’t seem to come up with any ideas. I’m tired.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist (killing isn’t necessary and will only create different billionaires, economic policy enforcing redistribution of wealth would be more effective) and voting should be made as easy and universal as possible, but crypto is not the solution to this or any other problem.
Agreed, I realize that. Just another bad idea I’m glad I worked out.
Cryptography and identity verification, useful technologies, exist outside of crypto, a useless technology.
Let me see if I understand this, it sounds like you want to make the crypto version of a Social Security number, but also in physical form (a coin).
The issues here is what happens when it’s lost? They would have to invalid the lost one (or be stuck with the Social Security angle that can’t be changed, but with a “trusted token” in the wild as well), but that means changing numbers and that would go against the whole crypto angle. And then it would be used as a form of ID (Social Security wasn’t ever meant to be used as ID, but like your suggestion, it is “unique” and issued at birth/citizenship). We already have enough problems with Social Security numbers being used for fraud, this would only make the matter worse I feel. (Again, as a “more trustworthy item due to crypto” public belief.)
As for population census, this wouldn’t help much because if people leave the country, then they aren’t part of the census count. But people don’t revoke their citizenship when they leave or even make a form letter to their government that they are going to be living more than 6 months out of the year in another country (the usual standard to be considered if you live in the country or not).
Agreed, just thinking out loud, quite stupidly haha.