[pp.int.general] Towards a secure eDemocracy platform based on Web service standards

[Richard Stallman]

    That's not completely true. In Spain whether we like it or not we have
    electronic identity cards (DNIe), and votes could be signed using the
    signature certificate.

DNIs are a system of repression, so let's not propose any new use for
them.


20 years ago, croatia used national ID cards for ethnic cleansing.
Now they are used for foreclosure without trial.

http://radiopurger.blog.com/2011/06/25/the-darkside-of-national-identity-cards/



>From Born in Tibet by Chögyam Trungpa, foreword by Marco Pallis

It is not only such obvious means of intimidation as machine guns and
concentration camps that count; such a petty product of the printing
press as an identity card, by making it easy for the authorities to
keep constant watch on everybody's movements, represents in the long
run a more effective curb on liberty.  In Tibet, for instance, the
introduction of such a system by the Chinese Communists, following the
abortive rising of 1959,and its application to food rationing has been
one of the principal means of keeping the whole population in
subjection and compelling them to do the work decreed by their foreign
overlords.



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