Point 7 is straight-up an unconstitutional poll tax. So is putting the key on the drivers license as another person commented unless we’re giving them to people for free without requiring a drivers test…at that point it basically stops being a drivers license and becomes a voter id card which negates the benefit of using the drivers license to begin with.
I also don’t know of any PKI implementation that provides the necessary trust services AND anonymity. Not to mention, it needs to be something even the elderly, disabled, poor, and technically challenged need to be able to access as well. Good luck walking grandma through OCSP. We haven’t been able to secure our current CAs well enough, and a distributed system would be too open to fraudulent key issuance. I’d love the personal convenience if there were a digital OPTION for voting, but I can’t say I’d inherently trust the system, which is a pretty big deal. Honestly, I think the current system works as well as any other I can imagine WHEN IT IS ADMINISTERED IN GOOD FAITH. A combo of in-person, mail-in, and ballot-drop boxes with a generous early voting window. When we start shutting down polling places, closing drop boxes, requiring missing work to vote on a weekday when lines can be 8-12 hours long or tying voting to an ID that isn’t equitably available are the problems.
Sauce: I’m a software engineer, and I’ve been a poll worker for the last several years.
Point 7 is straight-up an unconstitutional poll tax. So is putting the key on the drivers license as another person commented unless we’re giving them to people for free without requiring a drivers test…at that point it basically stops being a drivers license and becomes a voter id card which negates the benefit of using the drivers license to begin with.
I also don’t know of any PKI implementation that provides the necessary trust services AND anonymity. Not to mention, it needs to be something even the elderly, disabled, poor, and technically challenged need to be able to access as well. Good luck walking grandma through OCSP. We haven’t been able to secure our current CAs well enough, and a distributed system would be too open to fraudulent key issuance. I’d love the personal convenience if there were a digital OPTION for voting, but I can’t say I’d inherently trust the system, which is a pretty big deal. Honestly, I think the current system works as well as any other I can imagine WHEN IT IS ADMINISTERED IN GOOD FAITH. A combo of in-person, mail-in, and ballot-drop boxes with a generous early voting window. When we start shutting down polling places, closing drop boxes, requiring missing work to vote on a weekday when lines can be 8-12 hours long or tying voting to an ID that isn’t equitably available are the problems.
Sauce: I’m a software engineer, and I’ve been a poll worker for the last several years.