Okay, I understand. You mean that with electronic elections, you can’t have both anonymity and trust. I agree. Either you hold elections that are anonymous but could theoretically be manipulated, or you publish who voted for what, making the result verifiable. The decision between anonymity and trust is not an easy one. Here, we can discuss whether elections should be secret: https://lemmy.ml/post/38737498

One possibility would be to organize events in different locations around the world where digital identification codes are handed out to all participants, enabling them to vote online during the next time slot (e.g. 6 months). If the codes are handed out at the same time all over the world, it is not possible for one person to collect more than one code for a time slot.

Decidim is a digital open-source platform for citizen participation that can also be used for online voting: https://decidim.org/

That’s right. It is probably necessary to create a database containing identification details for all participants. If such a database exists, it should either contain only information that cannot be used for identity theft, or it should be managed by a trustworthy authority that ensures this data is not misused.

That’s true. When holding public elections, one should simultaneously try to create an environment in which voters with unpopular opinions are not suppressed.

The problem with secret ballots is that they are much easier to manipulate. If it is public who voted for what, it is not so easy to fabricate votes without it being noticed. Especially with online elections, which are easy to manipulate, I think that elections can be protected against fraud by making the voting process transparent.

That’s a very good question and a difficult one to answer. I agree with you that this is probably one of the biggest problems with conducting online elections. I’ve created a separate post to brainstorm solutions to this problem: https://lemmy.ml/post/38752026

I also have tried mobian on a PinePhone some years ago. The short batery live was indeed a big issue.

I like Debian because it is maintained by a community of volunteers rather than a company. In addition it is a well known distro with an active community that serves as the base for many other distros.