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Let people reuse verified facts across public services with consent, selective disclosure, logs, appeal rights, and paper alternatives so paperwork falls without building a surveillance ID.
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Jul 6, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Democrats have invested in customer experience, benefits access, digital service delivery, Login.gov, and administrative-burden reduction. Their weakness is that service modernization can under-specify the anti-surveillance rules voters fear: no universal identifier, no mandatory biometric path, no hidden data sharing, and no denial based on an opaque match.
Republicans often warn against national ID systems, biometric overreach, fraud, and federal data consolidation. Their weakness is that the critique can leave people proving the same facts with paper, credit-bureau questions, and agency-by-agency portals while fraud controls remain brittle.
The Innovation Party's delta is a technical and rights-based synthesis: reusable proof with selective disclosure, consent receipts, plural channels, audit trails, revocation, correction, and paper fallback. The party should oppose surveillance IDs while also refusing to treat duplicative paperwork as freedom.
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