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by miki123211 227 days ago
The problem is ensuring that the set of allowed public keys you have is actually the set of allowed public keys you want.

As others in the thread have said, there's nothing stopping the government from manufacturing millions of fake passport (or even just generating millions of fake passport keys) and using them to rig the election.

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For the purposes of this, I was assuming 1:1 passport to citizen and just wondering if that can be made anonymous. The real idea with an untrusted passport authority doesn't work ofc.