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A decentralized-ledger identity system that proves a fact, such as age or residency, without revealing the underlying data, useful for commerce and government services on its own merits.
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Jul 12, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Digital identity verification is a narrower, more technical question than most issues in this platform, and neither major party has staked out a distinct national platform position on zero-knowledge-proof identity systems specifically. This is closer to an emerging-technology question than a live partisan fight. To the extent a broader analog exists, it's the long-running and partisan debate over voter-ID and digital-ID requirements generally, where Republicans have more often pushed stricter ID mandates and Democrats have more often raised access and privacy concerns. That fight concerns mandatory ID. This proposal concerns a privacy-preserving technique for proving a fact without over-disclosing data, which is a distinct question this plank doesn't take a side on. The Libertarian Party's general skepticism of government-issued identity systems is a tension worth naming: a government-backed decentralized ID system is still a government-backed identity system, and some libertarian-aligned voices would object on that basis regardless of the privacy-preserving cryptography involved.
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