Validating Voters For Open Source Governance, In Person

An anonymous reader writes "As we (very gradually) move away from feudal, leader-based forms of governance to collaborative and open source governance, some interesting new issues arise. The biggest is usually user authentication: how can we avoid sock-puppets and spammers from overtaking the voting process? Enter the concept of the streetwiki, an ingenious system for having humans validate their physical neighbors. Bleeding-edge social organization meets ancient validation protocol."

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Re:This is basically how US elections work

[Anonymous Coward]

At least in California, there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be)..

Translation... This poster supports voter fraud and thinks it is unreasonable to come up with any likely way to prevent such things.

There are many calls about voter ID being racist. It must suck for those people who think so to see SO much racism in their life. Such as at the public library, federal buildings, the airport, driver licenses, the bank, getting a job, and on and on. The people who claim such laws are racists or wrong purely support voter fraud and are not ashamed to admit it. Perhaps one day we can live in a world where reasonable people are no longer called racists by extremists who think breaking the law should be easily enabled by the government.

Re:define:racist

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe Republicans don't get called racists because they're Republicans, but because they tend to be fucking racist.

Wild idea, I know. Just saying.

Re:This is basically how US elections work

[MightyMartian]

You can spin this any way you want, but the fact is you made an absurd claim, and now it turns out, when you boil away all that faux petulance, you don't have the balls to either back up your claim or admit you cannot.

And yes, my immoral' cowardly friend, it's always the obligation of someone making a claim to provide evidence.

Or, in shorter words, you're a ball-less lying sack of shit.