One problem about this MyDigitalID, you have to install those government apps and mydigitalID on the same phone. So if you lost that phone, good luck to all your government credentials. hohoho.

Not working for MyJPJ though. Need to be on same phone.

Not working for MyJPJ though. Need to be on same phone.

Problem for voting using a form of digitalID is this, you have to consider how many ways people can play foul with it.

When you vote using digitalID, the vote is being stored electronically. But how are the vote observers going to know whether the vote decision is being stored as the choice you as a voter, intends it to? Electronic data is invisible to the voters, and maybe somewhere along the line your vote is being ignored and being replaced by something else.

Compared to the current physical vote booth, the vote observers can clearly see that the paper passed to you initially has no vote, then you write something on it, and drop it to a vote box. They can observe if anyone trying to change the vote in the box. And until the vote box opens, the vote on paper is shown clearly to all vote observers. It is not possible to hack reality by magically changing the vote.

Not so if the vote is being stored electronically.

Sure it is quite simple to just create a simple voting system for you to vote electonically, but what if that "simple system" has some hidden codes somewhere that will automatically favor certain party by changing some of the votes? Can that be detected by the vote observers easily? That's the tough part.

Also, even if everything about the voting system is done in a fair manner without any tampering. What if the losing side suddenly claims that the voting system has been tampered with and the vote results are void, how can anyone proves convincingly that it did not happen? Electronic data cannot be observed and people can claim anything has happened to it. At the end it can boil down to you say vs they said. Happened to USA elections quite a number of times recently.


This post has been edited by vhs: Dec 15 2025, 12:01 PM

USA already wants you to provide face and fingerprints if you want to enter USA. Soon many nations might just follow, and before you know it, the private info of face and fingerprints of everyone will be sitting in government servers somewhere as a standard legal requirements.

This post has been edited by vhs: Dec 15 2025, 11:51 AM

So how? Declare jihad against all thinking machines?