21 Open democracy, voting, and SSI
Shannon Appelcline
Voting is a prime example of a system of collective choice that could be vastly improved by taking advantage of SSI to support making those collective choices over distance. Shannon Appelcline, the long-time editor-in-chief of the Rebooting the Web of Trust (RWOT) series of SSI conferences and a technical writer for Blockchain Commons, explores this topic in depth by outlining the problems with distance voting to date, considering the possibilities of true voter agency, and detailing how SSI fits into this new vision for open democracy.
The wonder of democracy is that members of a city, region, or country can vote to personally decide how their society is governed—through either direct or ...
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