futureblog: 2016

Cambucha Blocks

Lightweight, insulating, modular concrete blocks which can be filled with structural, reinforced concrete
30 pounds/cu. foot density
Uses non-toxic protein-based foam
Aggregate contains shredded plastic bags for tensile strength
Low-tech: build your own blocks on-site with open source formulae and form plans
Blocks integral to design-your-own/build-your-own modular building system, which favors modular units using standard sized material, and minimizes cutting and customization.
Can be used as insulating/solar sink blocks, as shown in composite panel design, above.

"You can COUNT on me

... because you can COUNT MY VOTE."

Every vote visible and countable
Every voter gets one anonymized, unique identity
Voter may optionally declare anonymized identity corresponds to their own public identity

Voting available for entire campaign season, and votes may be changed up to the deadline, which is the end of "voting day" for that issue or candidate.
Voters may submit percentage choices for funding of budgets, e.g. on the Federal budget, the voter may declare how much of his taxes go to each line item.
All votes are visible, but many may just show the voter anonymous ID, such as "Voter 12345 voted for Franken in seat /us/congress/house/district/123".
Each voter may see his cast vote at any time, and may validate or tabulate their own vote in perpetuity.
Registration Details

and there receives one anonymous voterID.
That person's central, shareable personID based on name, place of birth, and parents name, is marked as having received a virtual voterID,
and the voterID is given a "current residence precinct" designation,
but storing/publishing the relationship between personID and voterID is not legal,
nor is storing/publishing any information associating the "current residence precinct" with the personID.
Every virtual voterID gets a "current residence precinct", and submits all votes as though they were legally residing there.
Voters are responsible for registering with precincts, but in any event their vote is cast and cannot be denied by a precinct.
Voters may "out" their voterID by declaring the association between voterID and personID in any public, private, or government database or network, such as a town registry, national census database, personal website, or social media profile page.
Voters may claim to re-anonymize their voterID, and their old voterID is then "retired", which is visible, but blocked from any future elections.

Each watchdog group may download the entire election at any time and tabulate the anonymous, precinct-grouped votes.
All source code for the database and document schemae, voting page templates, and test data will be stored in GitHub
An example server will be stood up where people can register test accounts, and can prototype elections.
As the system reaches viability, policy activists can move to promote the results of the system's elections, and propose adoption of the open-source technology by election officials.