• @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    4217 days 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?

    • IndescribablySad@threads.net
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      1417 days ago

      it’s just name/age/address. And I expect a decent chunk to be from outside the US because people are terrible at following directions when an issue pertains to them.

      • @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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        2517 days 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.

        • ViatorOmnium
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          217 days ago

          Are ID Documents numbers validated on submit if you fill the form instead of using eID? Some countries don’t even have an eID option, and Finland and Ireland don’t even ask for document id.

      • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1317 days ago

        No, not for the vast majority of EU States, no, it requires an actual official government id like the EU eID, your tax ID number, something like that.

      • @boovard@lemmy.world
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        1017 days 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.

      • Saik0
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        717 days ago

        Poland requires DigitalID or PESEL (National Identification Number, kinda like SSN for the yanks) number.

      • AItoothbrush
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        517 days 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.

        • nyancatec
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          217 days 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.

          • @general_kitten@sopuli.xyz
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            217 days ago

            some countrie’s id numbers have built in checksums or something similar so it would be trivial to implement code to check if the number can be valid even without having access to the actual database so a random number generator would have to be at least a little bit sophisticated

          • AItoothbrush
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            117 days 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.

            • Goodeye8
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              There probably isn’t a central database to verify against so the solution would be to come up with a distributed system where each country implements its own verification process and then implement a standardized messaging structure that all countries would have to use. It would be a significant development effort to make something like that and it probably wouldn’t pay off to if it was made just for citizens initiative. Considering in the last 5 years there has been only 4 (5 if we also count SKG) initiatives that have passed 1 mil it’s probably cheaper to collect all the signatures and then have each country verify the dataset that relates to their country.

              • AItoothbrush
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                116 days ago

                I mean countries should have such systems in place. It would make a lot of things easier.

                • Goodeye8
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                  116 days ago

                  Countries probably have something in place that would easily verify a person but it would still take extra effort to make that something work with the system is managing the initiative counting.

                  It’s simply cheaper to collect all the votes and then do the verification rather than develop integration to verify in real time.