I think I'm going to open a project. Have no real name for it yet.
Apparently election software still sucks (in Germany).
https://youtu.be/ZaMSu6VAaHg?si=a7O8Ue9zV61i3YfD
How about a election software built on nostr?
I mean it would had private/public key by default. There are already relays that can be configured to only let specific npubs write. Each district get's their own npub for one election.
The relay gets nuked after election and new npubs are generated for a new election.
Then we only need some small pages like: generate npubs, publish a election status, Analyse the election status.
And since there is nothing secret about it, the relay could be read by everyone (also the analysis page).
Discussion
democracy only works when the voters have a stake in the outcome, eg, shareholder elections
otherwise, it is just a way of injecting your agenda by promising other people's property to those who have no stake in the outcome
the original democracy invented by the greeks literally was based on this rule (only the landholders) and even the original form of the democracy used in the US federal government was also similarly bound to property ownership
so, it's a nice idea, but you are downstream from the source of the poison
yep, same thoughts here.
but we need a good and working application for this now.
sure democracy has to change a lot more than that.
well, i think, if you got the resources to do it, great, but just my suggestion is build in a "vote weight" mechanism into it so it can be plugged into some kind of stake
the whole thing about proof of stake blockchains that actually rings true to logic is the idea that you have something at risk in your participation in governance
the problem with them is of course that controlling issuance of the token that one holds stake in is part of the purview of those with said stake, meaning they can redefine the rules of token emission and thus destroy its integrity
i think there is some project that has the concept of external money as a stake token, Babylon, i dunno how that is working out, but it's the only implementation i know of that i can see ever having a hope of working and not turning into a circle jerk and the "stakeholders" selling as much of their fresh tokens to destroy all semblance of value in the token on the market
if you make this democracy have a notion of stake, then you have the slot ready to fill with whatever measure of stake makes sense for the collective property of it