These are vague and strawman criticisms that deny reality and that DNS can't solve everything itself.
Who owns which domain will always be centralized if only one group or individual can own a particular name. Having multiple domain name systems creates chaos.
Privacy can be solved on the client-side with VPNs or DNS resolution encrypted proxies (dnscrypt) and private registration (by the owner).
Security (integrity and non-repudiation) already exists in the form of DNSSEC and DANE. It's a Catch-22 to say it's not when it clearly exists. It's imperfect but it does exist.
ICANN was supposed to/should've been a steward in the interests of all people, not just corporations.
You can't replace it with something else and expect a different result. All you're doing is moving problems around without addressing them. Emperor's new clothes won't fix that, sorry.
Fwiw DNSSEC was designed before modern crypto fundamentals were understood. It is a lackluster mechanism, and yet ICANN keeps trying to get people to use it.
DNSSEC and DANE are dead letters. After 25+ years of standardization effort, virtually no tech companies have adopted them. Its advocates cite bogus metrics like "number of signed zones" without disclosing that the overwhelming majority of those zones are signed automatically by registrars, which is security theater. No mainstream browser supports DANE, the key motivating feature for DNSSEC, and two browsers have introduced and then removed support for it. The major mail providers recently standardized MTA-STS specifically to avoid having to touch DNSSEC.
There's no solving infrequent social problems with technology, only socio-politically. I'm sure it does happen to a few people, but it sounds extremely rare.
At least a mail-in ballot usually has a "receipt," (that serial number thing that's torn off at the top/bottom) although it does little to show or prove a vote was counted, especially with the subjectiveness of interpreting handwritten marks. The bigger problem is electronic voting has no real records making it far easier to manipulate because there's nothing permanent to recount.
I suggest that to solve the receipt issue, privacy, speed of counting and accuracy to the best degree available, it's best to:
0. Make voting day a national holiday.
1. Mail every voter a durable, physical RFID token (signed by a closely-held private key) that has an unique code that is not recorded who it is given to. If they haven't received one before voting in-person, they can receive a random token.
2. The voter is first checked to make sure they haven't yet voted by keeping a database of "has voted"... completely independent of actual votes.
3. The voter either drops-off the RFID in a container in a booth for their vote preference, or they mail it sealed in two envelopes (outer mailing info, inner vote preference).
4. Votes are counted both by weight and by RFID scanning (whole containers of votes are scanned in batch) for redundancy.
5. Voters can check online in real-time if their vote was counted by searching for the RFID code they used.
6. Recounts are a matter of mass-scanning large containers (with appropriate chain-of-custody) of votes.
+1 for election day as a national holiday; I'd even go so far as to make voting mandatory (with support for blank protest ballots, health/circumstance exemptions, etc).
That said, while the RFID system you describe seems achievable (and clearly an improvement over closed-source easily-hackable voting machines), I think it misses an important component of a democratic process: voter trust. Even if the tech is fully auditable, requiring the average voter to trust an elite technological caste does reduce trust, compared to pen and paper, which are auditable by the vast majority of citizens.
Also, the RFID can't be the only mechanism; having a fixed address can be used for authorizing identity (as with mail-in ballots), but is not and should not be a requirement to vote.
At any rate, I agree that technology is no silver bullet; solutions should be sociopolitical first, and technology is merely a tool to that end. I do think there are worthwhile innovations to consider; if anything, I'd like to disrupt polling moreso than voting, which I think has a surprising political influence both during and between election cycles, and yet which we outsource to private media companies with their own biases and incentives. If we could crack the problem of distributed identity that is resistant to Sybil attacks, we could have ongoing/persistent voting, liquid voting, public choice economics, etc, enabling more fluid feedback loops with our representatives (and maybe someday, even "pass-through" representative direct democracy).
Voting by mobile is extremely problematic and shocking.
1. No paper record.
2. No privacy.
A better way would be to use anonymous physical RFID pebbles that are placed in a container to indicate voting preference. Votes can be both weighed and scanned for counting redundancy very quickly.
Mail-in voting would consist of mailing back the pebble chit in an outside return envelope with an inner vote envelope designating the preference; the outer envelope is removed and mixed with many others before sorting.
Then later, no matter how a vote was cast, it's possible to find how a vote was counted (by the voter searching for the RFID code(s) they used) in real-time because all votes were mass-scanned in RFID containers... that is, there will be a number of large containers that contain all votes for a particular preference in a particular election. Subsequent elections reuse the RFIDs to eliminate waste. No hanging chads, no provisional ballots, no hacked voting machines and no voting by mobile.
Although true, Western meat agriculture isn't similar but different: zillions of animals, stacked one on the other and humans going in to clean up after them getting all that waste all over them. Either way, it's a bioreactor for evolving a pandemic. This is likely how we acquired many horrible persistent diseases: smallpox, avian flu, influenza, measles and many more.
I've seen panic buying of face masks in Palo Alto and San Jose, mostly by people who appear of Chinese ancestry. I was doubtful on its efficacy, but it appears there is some benefit combined with hand-washing. It's probably a good idea to have hand sanitizer and face masks on-hand rather than waiting until they're sold out.
Giving them false information maybe an option.. or even "unintentional" misspellings, off-by-one phone numbers, disposable email addresses and vacant lots.
IANAL: Btw, has anyone asked a lawyer if this is a crime in any state or country?
It depends where you are, but a lot of people are struggling more because the very rich are using automation to eliminate jobs, take the extra money made for themselves and more easily move factories to other countries by chasing the cheapest workers. Also, consider that the decaying of the welfare state in many places has led to increasing homelessness, worsening medical conditions, shorter lives and more misery. Then there's ageism, where older workers worry constantly that they will be fired for being old and they worry that no one will hire them. And then there's the homeless, which in America as not all people know, there is a very loose patchwork of few services to help people who are permanently disabled or unemployed (but could work) to find housing, support and work. In America, if you're broke or working dead-end jobs/below livable wages: "sorry, it's your own fault."
Only a privileged few can take sabbaticals or work wherever/whenever they want.
Who owns which domain will always be centralized if only one group or individual can own a particular name. Having multiple domain name systems creates chaos.
Privacy can be solved on the client-side with VPNs or DNS resolution encrypted proxies (dnscrypt) and private registration (by the owner).
Security (integrity and non-repudiation) already exists in the form of DNSSEC and DANE. It's a Catch-22 to say it's not when it clearly exists. It's imperfect but it does exist.
ICANN was supposed to/should've been a steward in the interests of all people, not just corporations.
You can't replace it with something else and expect a different result. All you're doing is moving problems around without addressing them. Emperor's new clothes won't fix that, sorry.