https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en, This is the initiative I am talking about. You have to prove you are an EU citizen and then you can sign for the initiatives you want and if a million signatures are reaching within a year then it must be brought to the EU commission.
So if citizens of EU member states can sign online, why can’t they vote online for elections or referendums? If possible, this would decrease the need and power of representative democracy and move closer to direct democracy, which I argue is a good thing
Signing a petition is public, who you cast your vote for is private.
If there were any doubts on the signatures, officials can contact the people who signed and verify that they did sign. How do you verify a secret vote without ruining the secrecy?
I mean you can have online voting if you cast a ballot thats public, and it’d be verifiable, but then we go back to the 1800s in the US where threatening voters is a thing.
You have 3 elements:
1: Internet voting
2: Secrecy
3: Verifiable
Pick 2.
Each country within the EU is responsable for their voting system and each country has their own and most are exclusively offline. The EU initiatives is an EU system and has nothing to do with the countries voting systems.
because it’s much less important and so much less risky
Relevant xcdc https://xkcd.com/2030/
It’s fine, the blockchain is now augmented with some AI and runs serverless in the cloud!
There is something people here didn’t mention yet, the vote is secret for many reasons, one of them is that you can’t get a receipt that you voted for one party and then use that to get paid or rewarded.
By voting online it’s not possible to keep the vote secret as there are always ways to prove without a doubt for a certain party.
