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I just released a demo here https://ip-vote.com/ui/geolocation

For slow connections you can still make use Geo IP data (such as maxmind.com) to infer location, which should be quite reliable in most cases. You just cannot meet the stricter har…

To get a hard to manipulate, representative sample of popular opinion it's not necessary to include everyone in the results. Only if the sub-population sharing IP's is large enough…

The idea is to make things like petitions or demonstrations easier on a global scale and to also make voting data accessible for independent analysis, where further manipulation at…

> Is it possible to ensure that the data is not manipulated? I don't think one can place much trust in phones not being tampered with as they are frequently jailbroken. So you coul…

> Why is clock skew being used here at all? You're right, it's not actually necessary to use the client clock at all. It was easier to implement it that way initially and I kept it…

I tested it from my home and got a radius of about 200 km. But would be nice to get some additional validation. In any case it's not super precise but it adds more friction to mani…

The goal is to easily get a representative and un-manipulated sample of popular opinion. To achieve that, it might be ok to discriminate against certain users who use connections w…

That is true, the location proof is only for the hardware whose IP is used for submitting the vote request. However if remote desktop provider / cloud provider / VPN / Tor IPs are …