• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    My understanding is you need to input identification data, like a driver’s license just as an example, to sign.

    They expect some invalidating, hence aiming for over the million, but why do you think a “fair chunk” will be from USA specifically?

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        15 hours ago

        From Belgium it was also necessary to provide your social security number. And as more EU countries are moving towards e-id, I would assume there will be a negligible amount of non-EU signings.

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        14 hours ago

        For me i had to write my personal number which is not something you could just guess on the fly so i dont think its so easy to fake signatures.

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          13 hours ago

          It is. There’s no system to check if signature exists in your country’s ID list. Random number generator +random name generator is enough to “validate” the vote.

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            13 hours ago

            Huh thats stupid. You would think they have a database which they check a hash against at least or something. For the user it would look like everything is excepted but in the backend they would only count the valid ones so you cant brute force it. But of course governments never think about stuff like this so why did i expect it was like this.

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        18 hours ago

        I think it depends on the country. If you click on their instructions for different countries—Itally, for example—they have screenshots that show needing a document number like a Personal ID card.