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I think we should make voting mandatory.
If you want to ban mail in ballots, let's make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. Because you truly, yet incorrectly, believe that mail in ballots are insecure. Not because you're trying to suppress the votes of people who have a harder time making it to the ballot box.
If you want to prove that you're doing it for the right reasons, instead of the absolutely wicked reasons that you appear to be doing it for, then make voting mandatory at the same time. Make sure that each American gets to the ballot box because they are easily available and quick. Make voter registration automatic and track down every citizen to make sure that their voice is heard.
Ballot boxes disenfranchise bed-bound people. Let's not add an infraction for not voting. Mandatory voting requires mail-in ballots
The easy solution is just to make a polling place at the house of every bed-bound person.
Sorry, that's a joke. If you want a serious answer, then I don't think any court would allow them to take absentee ballots from bed-bound people.
in our blue area, some residents are allowed to be official polling stations. in red state they pratically banned it, this is convenient for old people, and people cant travel far.
I didn't think the Court would take bodily autonomy away from women, but here we are.
plus voter suppression in many red states as well, also the suppression works well in discourign people form voting altogether.
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.
Cryptography and identity verification, useful technologies, exist outside of crypto, a useless technology.
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.
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.
the last thing GOP wants is EVERYONE voting, it hurts them more if everyone is voting.