Workshop: "Good big brother scenario"

This is the scenario wrote by the good big brother team wenesday morning in the workshop: I remember voting for the first time at the age of 16 in 2025.

“I remember the first time I voted, I was 16 years old in Geneva. The main issue was this anonymity of voting in Geneva. The issue emerged when e-voting became a fact.

We needed assurances that our votes were being counted and not tampered with. Voting was to become a matter of public record, just like all other aspects of our privacy: our photos, our friends, our habits, and our taste in music. We all became like members of parliament, our voting records are public.

With e-voting, we now vote anytime we want, and not once a year or 4 years like my grand parents used to do. Voting is therefore less of a big deal than it was so 50 years old, and I guess people are a lot less judgemental about the way we are voting.

I remember that the day we all had to drive to the voting centers, write our votes down on a piece of paper behind a curtain. There was security guards everywere. It was the only time I voted like that, but I’ve been told that’s how the vote always was. I still find it weird that I don’t know how my friends voted that day. That vote was local to Geneva. It was a pilot study for the no-anonymous vote. I guess it was quite successful because there was people everywhere in Switzerland and some others parts of the world. Today everyone vote everywhere, after lunch, about whatever is the issue of the day.”

Raphaelle et Loïc