Company Owned By Humanity

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Wouldn’t it be nice if there were companies that are owned by humanity in the sense that they are managed by democratic decisions where every person in the world has one equally weighted vote?

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What mechanism can be used to verify that a participant in an online election is a real person who has only cast their vote once? (ttrpg.network)

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For a “company owned by humanity” in which every person in the world has one vote, a method is needed to verify that the online identity belongs to a real person. It is also necessary to ensure that people do not register multiple times. What solutions could be used to ensure this? Which of these solutions could be implemented on a small scale with little effort, and which could theoretically be scaled to the entire world population?

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At some point someone has to distribute those keys. And of course you have to have an entire organization just for this purpose. How do you stop one branch of the organization that is assigned to a geographical location from just issuing double the keys it should, and keeping them for voting many times in a way that favours them?

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ID implies it is tied to birth certificate. There would not be any additional administration. You just log onto a website and use your (likely raw card edge based USB interface) ID to vote. The encrypted keys are then passed between ID card and government server. This encryption is then hashed against all other hashes present to confirm that an existing vote hash does not match the new hash. If it does, you would be flagged immediately and detained for probable voter fraud while the issue is sorted out to be sure there was not a random error. The entire thing is automated no different than existing ID, and voting infrastructure. The only change is to adopt the same type of system credit cards presently use with integrated chips. That is a well proven and automated system. ID cards would cost around $0.50-$1.00 more per person. Digital infrastructure would displace the current voting systems, but that would have a massive reduction in labor, cost, and complexity as a result.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's just delaying the problem by one step. Now change "key" in my previous comment for "birth certificate"