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Distributed Democracy. P2P, PGP signatures, electoral lists.

Vote from anywhere, anytime, on anything.

Let's use the net to replicate all votes in real time, let's set an id onto each vote and trace its movements wherever it goes.

In fact it should be as easy as a mailing list of all votes!

http://leparlement.org/security

There is a concept which is taking importance: the possibility to lend your voice to another voter.

This is in fact an attempt at representative democracy, but one which is low level and very open.

Personally I plan to add it to my direct democracy project: http://leparlement.org/

But the way issues are organised is complexifying the whole matter, you have a tree of issues and a tree of delegations, both multiply complexity!

Internet can bring true democracy, increasing the size of the athenian forum, enough to hold all of humanity!

http://leparlement.org/

There is a concept which is taking importance: the possibility to lend your voice to another voter.

This is in fact an attempt at representative democracy, but one which is low level and very open.

Personally I plan to add it to my direct democracy project: http://leparlement.org/

But the way issues are organised is complexifying the whole matter, you have a tree of issues and a tree of delegations, both multiply complexity!

Internet can bring true democracy, increasing the size of the athenian forum, enough to hold all of humanity!

http://leparlement.org/

I've been working on an internet democracy project for a few years. It aims at allowing a fully trustable system, transparent to the point of being set up as a cluster of P2P servers, with PGP signatures and electoral lists.

Using the internet everybody could participate on everything from everywhere and at anytime. Yet you still need participation and a drive for fair decision making.

Internet could bring one thing: direct democracy. Just imagine the forum of the ancient greeks, but without any size limitation!!!

But no, it won't change everything: the desire to really decide on things democratically, the energy to go beyond media manipulations, the drive to let minorities live without oppression of the majority.

http://leparlement.org/

It's easy, let's go all the way to internet democracy and use data replication to ensure verifiability.

You add PGP signatures to votes, P2P servers to disseminate them, and electoral lists to calculate results.

It's so easy and straightforward, that you could rely on a general consensus in order to obtain results, and everybody can participate in it!

Of course there is one problem with it: votes can technically be bought.

But you get quite some advantages, you can vote from anywhere, anytime, on anything! Direct democracy at last.

The project I'm working on, aimed at just that => http://leparlement.org/security

It's simple really, use our best communication tool to do politics => the net.

How to do that securely?

Well, first of all internet has the potential to bring a *HUGE* change, it could be much much more, a Direct Democracy where everybody could participate on every issue all the time and from every where.

When, Where, What. A revolution.

Of course there is one consequence: votes could be bought. Is it a problem? Can it be fought? To be decided by each group.

Here, I'm working on such an internet democracy tool, in Ruby on Rails, called parlement. http://leparlement.org/

There are ways to secure it quite well: http://leparlement.org/security

Basically:
* P2P servers
* PGP signatures
* electoral lists

It's simple really, use our best communication tool to do politics => the net.

How to do that securely?

Well, first of all internet has the potential to bring a *HUGE* change, it could be much much more, a Direct Democracy where everybody could participate on every issue all the time and from every where.

When, Where, What. A revolution.

Of course there is one consequence: votes could be bought. Is it a problem? Can it be fought? To be decided by each group.

Here, I'm working on such an internet democracy tool, in Ruby on Rails, called parlement. http://leparlement.org/

There are ways to secure it quite well: http://leparlement.org/security

Basically:
* P2P servers
* PGP signatures
* electoral lists

Or you use a P2P apparatus to vote. But this has one major requirement on voters: vigilance (well, democracy always require vigilance!).

This applies on one rather simple thing: was my vote actually used in the result?

To do that it's rather simple, you of course see feedback from the server onto which you voted, but you also need to check on at least one other P2P server that it was correctly propagated.

If you do that properly, you could in fact receive mails displaying the path your vote went through.

Isn't that better than exit polls? So transparent and verifiable that it would mostly rely on a technical consensus!

http://leparlement.org/

Using the internet and its almost unlimited capacity to copy data around, I'm designing a system that aims to be simple and trustable.

It's easy yet disturbing. We can obtain a secure system if we remove anonymity. Then it's almost simple, distribute around the vote database and allow anybody to check the results.

In that kind of context, verification is mostly a technicality and could rely on consensus.

To regain some bit of anonymity, there can be a system of reinscription on the electoral list using a pseudo. Simple too, and while the person/pseudo relationship is private, everything else remains public and verifiable.

There are three basic stones in such a system:
* P2P servers
* electoral list
* PGP signatures

Simple, basic, strong.

I'm trying to construct such a system using Ruby on Rails, here is my project: http://leparlement.org/

You can also come discuss security here: http://leparlement.org/security

It's a moderated forum *and* a mailing list. Please, come and test it!

Using the internet and its almost unlimited capacity to copy data around, I'm designing a system that aims to be simple and trustable.

It's easy yet disturbing. We can obtain a secure system if we remove anonymity. Then it's almost simple, distribute around the vote database and allow anybody to check the results.

In that kind of context, verification is mostly a technicality and could rely on consensus.

To regain some bit of anonymity, there can be a system of reinscription on the electoral list using a pseudo. Simple too, and while the person/pseudo relationship is private, everything else remains public and verifiable.

There are three basic stones in such a system:
* P2P servers
* electoral list
* PGP signatures

Simple, basic, strong.

I'm trying to construct such a system using Ruby on Rails, here is my project: http://leparlement.org/

You can also come discuss security here: http://leparlement.org/security

It's a moderated forum *and* a mailing list. Please, come and test it!

It is possible to trust a democracy on the internet.

Yes, no voting station, no paper, no physical presence. Because electrons allow one thing: to share data around.

An election on the internet could be verified in real time by all interested parties.

There are three elements to use:
* P2P servers
* electoral list
* PGP signature

Using those three elements, you could do something you can really trust.

Of course there are other matters now open to discussion. Vote selling is the first that come to mind... it might be the price of a modern Direct Democracy.

My Ruby on Rails project implementing those ideas: http://leparlement.org/

To talk and exchange on security: http://leparlement.org/security

It is possible to trust a democracy on the internet.

Yes, no voting station, no paper, no physical presence. Because electrons allow one thing: to share data around.

An election on the internet could be verified in real time by all interested parties.

There are three elements to use:
* P2P servers
* electoral list
* PGP signature

Using those three elements, you could do something you can really trust.

Of course there are other matters now open to discussion. Vote selling is the first that come to mind... it might be the price of a modern Direct Democracy.

My Ruby on Rails project implementing those ideas: http://leparlement.org/

To talk and exchange on security: http://leparlement.org/security

We could actually trust, not electronic voting machines, but voting on the internet. A large step forward, almost a revolution.

How? With verifiability?

How do you verify votes? You copy all information you have about it to every and anybody wanting it! In real time.

http://leparlement.org/

We could secure votes using 3 elements:
* P2P servers
* PGP signatures
* Electoral lists

Have a look at http://leparlement.org/security

It's simple and I believe anybody looking at it with an open mind could come to the conclusion that it is interesting.

We could actually trust, not electronic voting machines, but voting on the internet. A large step forward, almost a revolution.

How? With verifiability?

How do you verify votes? You copy all information you have about it to every and anybody wanting it! In real time.

http://leparlement.org/

We could secure votes using 3 elements:
* P2P servers
* PGP signatures
* Electoral lists

Have a look at http://leparlement.org/security

It's simple and I believe anybody looking at it with an open mind could come to the conclusion that it is interesting.