Jerkey at 05:38, 1 February 2013

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	like. This process continues organically on no schedule, always improving		like. This process continues organically on no schedule, always improving
	the clarity of the sum of public opinion on an unlimited number of issues.		the clarity of the sum of public opinion on an unlimited number of issues.

			Voters posting their screeds can put them anywhere online where they can
			easily be crawled by automated software, and accessed by a direct URL.
			This can include Facebook.com, Blogspot.com, or any of [http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/free-blog-hosts/ 40 free blog hosts]

	to be added:		to be added:

Jerkey at 09:15, 31 January 2013

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	like "I am a voter in Berkeley, Alameda County, California, USA"		like "I am a voter in Berkeley, Alameda County, California, USA"
	The next lines each espouse a specific political view which can be worded		The next lines each espouse a specific political view which can be worded
	any way the voter feels, for example, "reduce drinking age to 18".		any way the voter feels, for example, "do not reduce drinking age to 18".

	Before or after posting her screed, a voter (or anyone) can run a simple		Before or after posting her screed, a voter (or anyone) can run a simple

Jerkey: Created page with "=Pretty Good Polling= ''PGP Guaranteed Polling'' I am creating a software suite for PGP Guaranteed Polling, which will enable members of a voting group to post their politic..."

2013-01-31T09:11:45Z

Created page with "=Pretty Good Polling= ''PGP Guaranteed Polling'' I am creating a software suite for PGP Guaranteed Polling, which will enable members of a voting group to post their politic..."

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=Pretty Good Polling=
''PGP Guaranteed Polling''

I am creating a software suite for PGP Guaranteed Polling, which will enable
members of a voting group to post their political preferences in a public place
for easy polling by anyone.

Essential to this scheme is the ability of each voter to cryprographically sign
her publicised political preferences with a public key, that key having been
itself signed by the Registrar of Voters with an annually expiring key. This
signing by the Registrar can happen any day during business hours at the office
of the Registrar of Voters, in person.

(For the purposes of private organizations, substitute Voter with Voting Member
and Registrar with Membership Coordinator)

A voter is not required to present for signing a public key which corresponds
to her legal name, however the voter must present sufficient evidence to the
Registrar to establish that she is eligible to vote. At this time the Regstrar
will cross the voter's name off the list and sign her public key once and only
once for the current year.

The Registrar is expected to keep no records of the process of signing the
voters' public keys, other than the list of voters who have had keys signed in
the current year, and a raw number of signings made with the current key. This
information is important for the public to ensure that the Registrar is not
signing keys for ineligible or nonexistant persons, or more than once for
eligible voters.

If a voter does not trust the Registrar to destroy records of her public key
during the signing process, she can use "blinding" technology to obscure her
public key from the Registrar during the signing process. When she gets home,
the voter can "unblind" her public key while still being able to prove that her
key has been signed by the Registrar.
(This part of the process is in the development phase since blinding is a
relatively new concept in cryptography)

Once the voter has her signed key, she can create a "screed" which is
simply a text-only page beginning with a line about eligibility to vote,
like "I am a voter in Berkeley, Alameda County, California, USA"
The next lines each espouse a specific political view which can be worded
any way the voter feels, for example, "reduce drinking age to 18".

Before or after posting her screed, a voter (or anyone) can run a simple
open-source program to tally and tabulate all of the screeds found on the
internet with keys signed by Registrars local or otherwise. This program
will then present the viewer with a summation of lines found to be
identical and the prevalence of those lines. The user can then flag lines
which are equivalent (but not textually identical) to get a more accurate
tabulation, and if the user is a voter, to discover which lines are most
common. The voter can use this information to update her screed to the
most conventional phrases while maintaining the same political thrust.

Voters (and anyone) can find these tabulations regularly posted by
journalists and editors of local newspaper websites, reducing the need
for each voter to run their own software scan. (except in cases of
contraversy or close tallies) Voters can also use these tabulations to
learn about popular political issues and the common phrasing associated
with those issues. Voters can update their public screed as often as they
like. This process continues organically on no schedule, always improving
the clarity of the sum of public opinion on an unlimited number of issues.

to be added:
role of page hosts (facebook, blogspot, local newspaper sites, etc)
process of polling taken by journalists, citizens, and anyone
software used by voters for posting their public page
software for polling and tabulating text-based opinions
software for voters to monitor their own public page
role of special interest groups in advising voters of issues
role of special interest groups in assisting voters in the process
...

Prettygoodpolling - Revision history

Jerkey at 05:38, 1 February 2013

Jerkey at 09:15, 31 January 2013

Jerkey: Created page with "=Pretty Good Polling= ''PGP Guaranteed Polling'' I am creating a software suite for PGP Guaranteed Polling, which will enable members of a voting group to post their politic..."