CLI voting system
So I was discussing modpol with other ppl, and we had the following conversation:
<jrmu> mistere: the voting system I have in mind would take place via email
<jrmu> we'd have elected officials who represent the users
<mistere> wow, thats a really good idea
<jrmu> they would exchange pgp keys and they would vote by email
<jrmu> you'd sign each vote so you can be cryptographically certain there is no fraud
<jrmu> open ballots at first
<jrmu> this is pretty important because if you're voting on important stuff
<jrmu> you don't want cheating on voting
<jrmu> there's no cryptography i would trust besides gpg
<jrmu> the vote ballots would be published on a mailing list
<jrmu> and you could search historical votes using a mailing list archive, which should be accessible by nntp
<jrmu> so every time congress votes, you *always* have their voting record
<jrmu> so you can always hold your reps accountable for bad votes
<lewis_clark> there's a lot of value in making votes public
<mistere> we have a CLI for the main modpol defualt UI, and we were having a hard time thinking of a way to implement asynchonous voting. Email is a useful way
<lewis_clark> it can be used to form automatic friend graphs
<jrmu> if you could do it with mailing list + nntp voting archive with pgp
<jrmu> i would be much much more interested in it
<jrmu> because that gives us 1) transparent voting that 2) anyone could look up the voting history and 3) be cryptographically certain there was no fraud
<mistere> IDK how to use pgp yet, but I guess Ill lean that , wont i? :D
<jrmu> i have a pgp guide for thunderbird, one sec
<jrmu> https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Thunderbird.Connect```
Edited by MisterE