"Another one for the ethos. They're forcing universal digital ID on us, like it or not. So let's seize it—flip their surveillance tool into unstoppable people power:
- blackwidowtattoo2
- Dec 23, 2025
- 12 min read
Updated: Dec 24, 2025
Real-time, fully transparent governance with public votes, instant recalls, and total fiscal control.
No hiding. No middlemen. Just raw, continuous consent.
Time to shake the system to its core."
It’s Christmas, but it doesn’t feel like it this year. The lights are up around the neighbourhood, and I enjoy a quiet walk to see them, but the usual joy just isn’t there—for me, or for many people I talk to. After watching Andrew Tate open up with rare vulnerability on Rumble this morning, it hit me: if he can show up honestly, so can I.
The truth is, things feel heavier than ever. Costs keep rising—rent, food, energy—while wages and opportunities stagnate or disappear. Careers and trades that once felt secure are collapsing under the weight of the economy. Many of us who worked long hours, made big sacrifices, and built real skills are still finding it harder to stay afloat, let alone get ahead. Planning for the future feels pointless when basic stability is out of reach.
This isn’t about one person’s story—it’s a pattern playing out globally. Standards of living are slipping, and the systems meant to serve us often feel distant, opaque, and unaccountable.I’ve seen it up close in smaller settings too: community groups, clubs, events where money flows but transparency is avoided at all costs. With the technology we have today—real-time tracking, immutable records, open dashboards—why isn’t clarity the default?
The answer seems obvious: "Lack of transparency protects those who benefit from it."
That realisation sparked a bigger question:
What if we applied modern tools to civic systems themselves? Not as a political attack, but as a simple thought experiment—what would governance look like if transparency was the starting point?
That’s the core of the think-tank concept I’ve been exploring in Fuel for Tomorrow: a conceptual framework for real-time, fully transparent civic and financial participation, inspired by systems we already trust (like stock markets) for their visibility and accountability.
It’s far from finished—full of open questions about security, safeguards, and implementation—but ideas only get better when they’re shared and scrutinised.
I’ve laid it out here for anyone curious:
A deeper video breakdown drops in just days—December 29, 2025—on my YouTube channel Fuelling Tomorrow’s Playbook (@FuellingTomorrow). I’m sharing this not from a place of despair, but from a refusal to accept that this is as good as it gets. Talking with tools like Grok and other AIs helped crystallise the spark—reminding me that ideas belong in the open, where others can pick them up, improve them, or build something entirely new.
So consider this an invitation: If anything here resonates (or even irritates), please share it in your own words and style. Add your perspective, your critique, your improvements—especially if you think it’s completely misguided. Honest input, good or bad, is what moves thinking forward. We don’t need more forced cheer or silence. We need more people willing to think out loud about possibility.
Thank you for reading during this quiet time.
Here’s to sparks that might just catch.Respectfully,
Erika B. Armstrong
Let's explore - A Fully Transparent, Real-Time Transparent Civic Voting System
A Radical Transparent Concept for Global Direct Governance by the People:
The Only Viable Path in a World of Universal Digital ID
If the global masses collectively agree to a universal digital ID system—verified, biometric-linked, singular, and mandatory for civic participation—then compromise models (secret ballots, fixed terms, representative buffers) become unnecessary relics.
With digital ID solving identity fraud and eligibility at scale, we can build an intentionally radical, fully transparent, real-time civic system.
This is clean-sheet design: no anonymity, no hidden processes, continuous public consent.
It breaks conventional norms deliberately to maximize accountability and eliminate elite capture. This isn't incremental reform. It's continuous consent governance—a living social contract where power is held only as long as it's visibly justified.
Core Principles (Non-Negotiable)
No secret ballots — Every vote is a public act.
Votes visible in real time — No delayed tallies.
Every vote attributable — Linked to real name and digital ID.
Officials continuously accountable — No safe terms.
Compensation, power, and tenure vote-controlled — Public decides everything.
The system is public infrastructure — Open-source, blockchain-backed, globally auditable.
This replaces representative democracy with direct, ongoing civic action.
1. Identity = Vote = Public Record
Every person gets one verified digital civic identity (biometric + cryptographic key, synced globally via universal ID standards).
Your public civic profile displays:
Full voting history (searchable).
Participation rate (mandatory minimums enforced via incentives/penalties).
Delegations (if you opt to delegate on topics—delegation itself public).
Declared conflicts of interest.
Voting becomes "public civic action," not private preference.
Adults own their positions openly.
2. Real-Time Voting Ledger (No Ballots)
Proposals are live objects on a global blockchain ledger.
Votes update continuously—like a stock ticker.
Example Dashboard: Global Aid Package #2026-47 – Emergency Climate Fund
YES: 1.82 billion (58.4%) NO: 1.30 billion (41.6%) Live updates every second.
Decision window: Closes in 72 hours.
Each vote shows:
Voter name/ID, timestamp, rationale (optional but visible).
Immutable blockchain ensures no tampering—visualized as public ledgers.
Inspired by DAO interfaces:
3. Officials as Revocable Contracts
No "representatives."
Officials are temporary administrators with authority only while public approval exceeds thresholds.
4. Continuous Removal Voting
Every official has a live confidence score and trend graph. Citizens vote retain/remove anytime.
Drop below threshold → automatic suspension and replacement.
No fixed terms.
No scandals required—just real-time math.
5. Public Voting on Remuneration
Pay is dynamic:
Base range + public multipliers.
Example: Global Health Coordinator Current: 150,000 units/year Live Vote: Increase 18% | Decrease 62% | Keep 20%
Result: Automatic downward adjustment.
Bounded to prevent abuse.
6. Laws Are Mutable
Every law requires ongoing maintenance votes.
Support drops → auto-expire or revision.
No permanent statutes surviving on inertia.
7. Budget Allocation:
Live Fiscal Control
Global dashboard shows revenue, spend, allocations.
Citizens vote to shift percentages in real time (within bounds).
Example: Defense → 12% (Live shift: -0.8% net).
Direct control over every aid package, deadline, and dollar.
8. No Hidden Process
All drafts, amendments, comments, influences—public and timestamped.
Lobbying visible; vote weight always one-per-person.
9. Social Consequences (Intentional)Upsides: Ends quiet corruption, forces literacy, deters careerism.
Costs: Social pressure, public disagreement—accepted as the price of truth
9. Why This Hasn't Existed
Power structures thrive on opacity.
Elites designed systems for favourable stability, not public visibility and stability.
10. What This Really Is
A public truth machine.
Power must be justified continuously, in full view.
The Stock Exchange Analogy:
Proof It's Possible Globally
Stock markets already deliver what politics denies:
Real-time logging of trillions.
Global participation with strong ID.
Public discovery and immutable records.
High-stakes, millisecond reliability.
Voting is technically simpler—no money movement, just ledger entries.
Markets get transparency because capital demands it.
Politics avoids it because incumbents fear it.
The contradiction: We let anonymous bond markets "vote" on governments daily with real consequences... but not citizens transparently on policy.
So, with universal digital ID, there's no technical barrier—only power incentives and inertia.
This system globalizes because fragmentation protects elites. We Must Demand it from below: Start in cities/DAOs, scale up.
Bottom line: If digital ID is accepted globally, this radical transparent model isn't optional—it's the logical endpoint.
Anything less preserves control for the few.
Whether we like it or not, the tide of universal digital ID is rising inexorably—pushed by governments, the UN's "50-in-5" campaign, EU mandates, and national schemes from the UK to India and beyond, often framed as essential for services, security, and inclusion but criticized as a coercive gateway to unprecedented surveillance.
Yet in this forced march toward a digitized identity, lies our greatest opportunity: to seize the infrastructure they're building and flip it into the ultimate tool for reclaiming power—a radical, fully transparent, real-time governance system where every vote is public, every official revocable, and every dollar traceable, turning their control mechanism into the people's unbreakable ledger of continuous consent.
If they're going to bind us to digital ID, demand the radical upside: a global, blockchain-backed platform that makes opacity impossible and power truly ours again.
The Sytem
A Fully Transparent, Real-Time Civic Voting System
Core Principles (Non-Negotiable)
No secret ballots
Votes are visible in real time
Every vote is attributable
Officials are continuously accountable
Compensation, power, and tenure are all vote-controlled
The system itself is public infrastructure
This is not representative democracy.This is continuous consent governance.
A. Identity = Vote = Public Record
Identity Model
Every participant has:
A single, verified civic identity
A public civic profile
A cryptographic identity key
No anonymity.
Your civic profile shows:
Voting history
Participation rate
Delegations (if any)
Conflicts of interest (declared)
This reframes voting as: “Public civic action” rather than “private preference”.
B. Real-Time Voting Ledger (No Ballots)
How Voting Works
Every proposal is a live object
Votes update continuously
The tally is visible at all times
There is no “election day” — only decision windows
Think:
GitHub commits
Stock market tickers
DAO governance dashboards
Example View
Law #4821 – Public Transport Funding Adjustment
YES: 6,482,104 (61.3%)
NO: 4,088,221 (38.7%)
Votes updating live
Decision closes in: 4 days, 3 hours
Every vote shows:
Voter ID (or public alias)
Timestamp
Vote value
No aggregation hiding anything.
C. Elected Officials as Revocable Contracts
Officials Are Not “Representatives”
They are:
Temporary delegates
Paid administrators
Continuously removable
Their authority exists only while:
Public approval ≥ defined threshold
D. Continuous Removal Voting (Not Elections)
Instead of:
Fixed terms
Rare elections
You have:
Live Confidence Scores
Every official has:
Approval percentage
Trend graph
Public confidence index
Citizens can at any time:
Vote to retain
Vote to remove
If approval drops below threshold:
Automatic suspension
Interim replacement
Public review period
No impeachment theater.No scandals needed.Just math.
E. Public Voting on Remuneration
This is a key differentiator.
Pay Is Dynamic and Vote-Driven
Each official has:
Base compensation range
Performance multipliers
Public pay slider
Citizens vote on:
Salary increases
Salary decreases
Bonus eligibility
Severance
Example:
Minister of Transport
Current Pay: 92,000 units/year
Public Vote:
⬆ Increase: 22%
⬇ Decrease: 54%
— Keep same: 24%
Result:
Pay adjusts downward next cycle
Pay changes are:
Gradual
Predictable
Bounded (no sudden collapse or abuse)
F. Laws Are Mutable, Not Permanent
Continuous Law Validity
Every law has:
An activation vote
A maintenance vote
A sunset condition
If public support drops:
Law auto-expires
Or enters revision mode
No laws survive purely because they’re old.
G. Budget Allocation: Live Fiscal Control
Real-Time Budget Dashboard
Citizens see:
Current revenue
Current spend
Deficit/surplus
Allocation breakdowns
They can vote to:
Increase/decrease categories
Reallocate funds
Freeze spending
Votes directly shift allocations within safe bounds.
Example:
Healthcare Funding
Current: 18%
Live Vote:
⬆ Increase: +2.1%
⬇ Decrease: -0.4%
Net Change: +1.7%
Adjustments apply continuously or at fixed fiscal checkpoints.
H. No “Hidden Process” Layer
There are:
No closed committees
No private negotiations
No backroom deals
Everything:
Proposal drafts
Edits
Comments
Amendments is public and time-stamped.
Influence is visible.
If a corporation, union, or group pushes something:
Their participation is logged
Their arguments are public
Their vote weight is exactly one per person
I. Social Consequences (Intentional)
This system changes citizen behavior:
Upsides
Extreme accountability
No career politicians
No quiet corruption
Political literacy rises fast
Costs
Social pressure
Public disagreement
Loss of private political expression
This model chooses transparency over comfort.
J. Why This Has Never Existed at Scale
Not because it’s impossible — but because:
Power hates visibility
Elites rely on opacity
Most systems optimize for stability, not truth
People underestimate social backlash effects
This system assumes:
Adults can own their positions
Public disagreement is healthy
Power must be continuously justified
K. What This Really Is
This isn’t just governance.
It’s:
A public truth machine
A distributed accountability engine
A real-time social contract
Or put bluntly:
If you want power, you must hold it in public — constantly.
Comparisons Analysis
1. The Stock Exchange Proves the Core Point
A modern stock exchange already has:
✅ Real-time transaction logging
✅ Global participation
✅ Strong identity + account controls
✅ Public price discovery
✅ Immutable historical records
✅ Massive throughput and uptime
✅ High-stakes money on the line
If we can trust:
trillions in capital,
millisecond trades,
global actors,
then voting is a strictly easier technical problem.
So the question is not “can we?” It’s “why don’t we?”
2. Why Markets Get Real-Time Transparency — but Politics Doesn’t
Key difference: Who benefits
Stock markets
Transparency benefits liquidity
Liquidity benefits capital
Capital funds the system
Everyone powerful agrees on the rules
Political systems
Transparency threatens incumbents
Removes timing control
Exposes influence
Makes power revocable at all times
Markets reward exposure.Politics survives on managed opacity.
3. The Myth That Voting Is “Too Sensitive”
You’ll often hear:
“Voting must be secret to protect people.”
But notice:
CEOs vote publicly in boardrooms
Judges issue signed rulings
Legislators vote on record
Investors take public positions
Analysts publish opinions daily
Only the public is told they can’t be trusted with visibility.
This isn’t a technical limitation — it’s a paternalistic design choice from earlier out-dated eras.
4. The Real Constraints (The Honest Ones)
a. Power Volatility
Real-time voting creates:
Continuous legitimacy checks
No fixed terms
No “safe windows” for unpopular decisions
For people in power, that’s existentially destabilizing.
b. Narrative Control Loss
Today:
Decisions happen quietly
Justifications come later
Blame is diffused
With real-time systems:
Everyone sees momentum forming
Everyone sees who voted which way
Spin becomes harder than truth
c. Elite Coordination Becomes Visible
In markets, collusion is illegal and watched.
In politics:
Lobbying
Coalition deals
Informal pressure
These depend on partial invisibility.
d. Why “Global” Makes Elites Especially Nervous
A global voting system implies:
Shared civic standards
Comparable accountability
Reduced national gatekeeping
Less leverage via borders
That threatens:
Sovereignty narratives
Geopolitical asymmetry
Control through fragmentation
Markets globalized because capital wanted it.Politics hasn’t because power didn’t.
e. The Irony: Governments Already Use Market Logic
Governments already accept:
Bond markets judging them daily
Credit ratings adjusting in real time
Currency values fluctuating instantly
So we already allow:
anonymous investors to vote on state credibility with money
But not:
citizens voting on policy with transparency
That’s a philosophical contradiction, not a technical one.
f. What Would Actually Be Needed to Make It Happen
Not new tech.Not better encryption.Not faster servers.
What’s needed is:
A New Legitimacy Source
Power derived from:
Continuous consent
Visible participation
Ongoing trust
Not:
Election events
Party machinery
Institutional inertia
Cultural Acceptance of Public Disagreement
A society must accept:
“I voted this way”
“I changed my mind”
“I was wrong”
Markets normalize this.Politics moralizes it.
A Reframing of Citizenship
Citizenship becomes:
Active
Ongoing
Measurable
Not:
Periodic
Passive
Symbolic
The Real Reason It Hasn’t Happened Yet
Here’s the blunt truth:
Stock exchanges were built to serve capital.Political systems were built to manage people.
Real-time voting empowers people the way markets empower capital.
That’s why it feels “obvious” to you — and “dangerous” to institutions.
The Likely Path (If It Ever Happens)
It probably won’t start with:
National governments
Constitutions
Elections
It will start with:
Cities
Digital communities
DAOs
Cooperative economies
Budget participatory pilots
Just like markets evolved:
Informal → formal → global
Governance would too.
The Bottom Line
There is no technical reason we can’t have:
Global
Real-time
Transparent
Accountable voting systems
There are only:
Power incentives
Cultural inertia
Fear of visibility
And those aren’t solved by engineering —they’re solved by collective demand.
The Model:
"TransparentCivic" National Platform
Core Principle: Every eligible citizen/resident has a verified account. All votes are publicly attributed by real name/ID on an immutable ledger. No secrets—everyone sees who voted what, when, and why (optional rationale field).
Authentication & Eligibility:
Government-issued digital ID (biometric + hardware token, like advanced Estonia e-ID).
One person, one account—linked to national registry (tax ID, residency).
Age 18+, residents included if tax-paying.
Platform Architecture:
Hybrid app/web + in-person kiosks (public libraries, government offices) to reduce digital divide/malware.
Backend: Public blockchain (e.g., permissioned like Hyperledger or custom Ethereum fork) for immutable records.
Every vote transaction: Signed by user, timestamped, publicly viewable in real-time (dashboard shows live tallies + individual votes searchable by name).
Full history: Who voted for what aid package, by what date it must be allocated.
Voting Process:
Real-time public ledger: Vote cast → instantly visible (e.g., "John Doe voted YES on $10M aid to Region X, deadline June 2026").
Proposals: Originate from officials, experts, or petitions (e.g., 1% signatures to advance).
Types:
Laws/bills: Yes/No/Amend.
Budgets: Interactive allocation (sliders for categories, specific line items like "This aid package: Approve/Fund/Deny").
Officials: Elect via ranked-choice, set remuneration (e.g., vote on salary caps), recall petitions (threshold triggers binding vote).
Outcomes binding if quorum met (e.g., 60% participation).
Mandatory Participation:
Monthly tasks: App pushes 5-10 active items (prioritized by urgency/impact).
Requirement: Vote/review at least 80% monthly (tracked publicly—non-compliance list visible for accountability).
Enforcement: Tied to taxes/benefits—small deduction (e.g., 1% tax penalty) or loss of certain privileges; exemptions for hardship (verified).
Incentives: Completion bonus (tax credit), public recognition for consistent participation.
Transparency Features:
Searchable database: "Show all votes by Official X" or "Who supported this budget cut?"
Rationale optional but encouraged (public text/field).
Real-time dashboards: Live maps/charts of votes by region/demographic.
Audits: Open-source code, independent blockchain nodes
Mitigations for Risks (Making It Workable):
Coercion/Harassment: Laws with teeth—severe penalties for vote-based intimidation (e.g., employer pressure illegal, monitored via reports). Public nature deters some (harder to hide coercion), but accept it's a trade-off for exposing corruption.
Overload: Liquid delegation optional—delegate to trusted person/topic (delegation public: "Jane delegated to Expert Y on budgets"). Revocable anytime.
Security: Votes via secure kiosks/apps; blockchain prevents tampering. Multi-factor + in-person options for high-stakes.
Scale: Phase in—start local (cities prove it), then national. Education modules mandatory for complex votes.
Complexity: Neutral summaries, AI explanations, pro/con feeds.
This model crushes representative dominance:
No more hidden lobby deals—every dollar allocation, law, official pay/recall is publicly voted and traceable to names. With Tate Bro's intitiations - Corruption gets exposed fast (e.g., patterns of suspicious votes flagged).
Mandatory element forces engagement, like civic duty.
On paper, with Elon-level engineering (rigorous testing, redundancy), blockchain for immutability, and strong anti-harassment enforcement, it could outperform the current system in responsiveness and trust.
Its For the People—direct, transparent, no bullshit intermediaries skimming taxes.
"Hijack the Grid: Turn Digital ID into the People's Permanent Power"
We've built global systems that track every stock trade in real time, down to the penny, with full public visibility and immutable records. Trillions move instantly, identities verified, histories searchable—yet when it comes to who gets our tax money, who makes the laws, or who stays in power, suddenly it's "too complex," "too risky," or "needs secrecy to protect us.
"Bullshit. The only reason we don't have radical, real-time, fully transparent governance already is because the people currently holding power benefit from the darkness. They need backroom deals, hidden lobbying, and untraceable influence to keep their cuts flowing. Secret ballots and representative buffers aren't protecting democracy—they're protecting the grift."
This Concept flips the script using the exact same tech logic:
Universal digital ID? They're forcing it anyway.
Blockchain ledgers? Already proven at planetary scale.
Real-time dashboards? Stock exchanges and DAOs do it daily.
Public votes tied to names? Harder to buy, coerce, or hide.
It's not complicated engineering—it's political will. And the beautiful irony is: the more they push coercive digital ID (UN's 50-in-5, EU wallets, national schemes everywhere), the closer they bring us to the infrastructure needed to make their control obsolete.
All that's missing is enough people saying:
