Your Phone Holds the Key: How Mobile Voting Can Triple Voter Turnout - And Save Democracy!

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[@brendanwiley253]

This is an interesting contrast to Tim Pool's "You should at least be required to walk up a set of stairs to vote because if you can be dissuaded from voting by such a small task you probably shouldn't have a say in the direction of the country."

[@jacobrutherford9825]

I agree with Tim

[@kristinludlowUX]

Tim won't accomplish much if he needs mobility assistance like 6.8 million Americans do (if we take him literally). If we take him figuratively, what similar test of endurance would suffice to disqualify any American from voting? Sure, he's making a point - voting isn't hard, it's just inconvenient. If you're too lazy then you don't deserve anyone making it easier for you, and maybe you're so stupid as a result of your complacency that we really don't want you voting anyway. Except we live in a world where companies are spending millions trying to make things easier for customers to buy from them. Amazon. Order something, it's there sometimes THAT VERY DAY. Take our phones, as an example. It's nothing to us to pick it up and send a text or check social media or do anything that would have been impossible to do 15-20 yrs ago. But we take it for granted. We are all digitally "privileged." So why shouldn't voting be just as easy? We bank on our phone, so why tf not vote with it too? There is so much room to make voting a better user experience because it's so behind the times. It's a legacy system ripe for innovation.

[@titobeme]

Increasing the voter pool through mobile voting would make politicians required to discuss actual policies across a larger spectrum of voters. They’d hate it, which is why I’d support it.

[@sailorx72]

Mobile voting if it includes facial ID is a great idea. The DMV does have a digital version of our pictures in their databases. Easy and secure way to vote.

[@awdrifter3394]

But not all phones have Apple FaceID. Most Android phone's face unlock is not secure. They can be tricked by a 2D video.

[@Extortionism]

This is the type of decision each State gets to make as they evaluate how they will implement the software. Voter ID and this topic go hand in hand, and there are multiple solutions to the security problems in these systems. Each State can have their own solution and if something like this is implemented, it would make RCV and other voting methodologies able to be presented to the voters as options and not mandates.

[@Kyobi]

it might be easier just to make voting days a holiday

[@DishDetergent898]

Unlikely to happen anytime soon and the government is terrible with tech. Remember when they rolled out healthcare dot gov for the ACA? Focus on the real problem...which is people don't care to vote because they feel the system doesn't help them.

[@vinsbargains5920]

Why is our goal to find the "I might as well vote, it's easier than ordering a Big Mac" voters ?

[@thetruth16159]

Because many people work long hours, take care of multiple children and/or don't have the means to easily get to the polling place and therefore, don't have the time to take an hour or two out of their day to vote. We should want to get these people access to vote.

[@DishDetergent898]

​@@thetruth16159there was early voting for weeks before the election and people could request mail in ballots. Are you saying people couldn't find an hour to do any of this despite all of that? I used to work 80 hours a week. There was certainly time for me to vote then I simply didn't because I didn't care. The problem isn't that people don't have time it's that they are disinterested because both candidates are generally awful and do nothing meaningful.

[@thomasnewton7353]

A vote's a vote! Even if they're on the side of good out of laziness, they're still on the side of good!

[@DishDetergent898]

​@@thomasnewton7353this type of rhetoric is exactly what turns away people on the sides. This isn't a holy war. It isn't the election to end all elections. You're not a crusader.

[@thetruth16159]

@@DishDetergent898 Because your specific situation allowed you the time to vote doesn't mean everyone has that luxury. If you simply didn't want to vote, then you wouldn't have voted by phone either.

[@NewToneProducer]

As someone that feels sour towards Bradley Tusk because of the way Andrew's mayoral campaign went, this talk was actually really impressive. His plan is clear and believable. And it's another way we can initiate system level, incentives focused change. Additionally, what I love about Yang have this podcast is that he basically has a lot of policies that can be built on his various conversations (and the books read) here to build up a Presidential Platform (crossing fingers).

[@marchuitt]

Ya, no. Voting should require effort. Not the ease of swipe-app. Tends to weed out the parasites, the lazy, the ignorant. As people who make an effort to vote tend to know the issues, platforms.

[@sangmoon2464]

Why did Democrat voting numbers decrease so much back to be consistent with 2016 and 2012 numbers? Was there mail-in ballot falsification in 2020?

[@oremfrien]

No. There was more apathy.

[@robertov3866]

Its wild how democrats managed to rig the election in 2020 when they werent in power but did not rig it when they were in power lol

[@awdrifter3394]

@@robertov3866 they cheated in the states in which they had power (Democrat governor, state legislature).

[@jainradhakrishnan6600]

I think the opposite should occur. No mobile voting, no electronic voting at polling places. Only paper, scantron style ballots to be used in all elections with background checks on poll workers. Real ID required to be verified by a poll worker. Absentee ballots should be requested and upon request verify ID. Any rule changes to how the public votes should be put to a vote, and the public, not unelected (former) party insiders who want to add complexity into the system, gets to decide on how voting works in their electorate.

[@titobeme]

In my view, it’s too susceptible to human error and bad actors.

[@rbu2136]

Hacking. Not a chance this gimmick happens.

[@bluzytrix]

"Shall not be infringed" that's the right thing to do. Keep 2A out of this conversation if you want traction.

[@bobby45825]

I'm more extreme: Make all voting smart phone voting ONLY. Cut out boomers and guaranteed you'll have way more 3rd party candidates having a chance.

[@drsmetal2747]

Could we see a reemergence of Yang 2028?

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[@marytschida5756]

Voting? There won't be any voting!

[@bobberdown7647]

Free unlimited voting for everyone!

[@jenniferdonnellan825]

This is a terrible idea.. would be so easy for fraud.. if u want to cheat this is a great idea.

[@sailorx72]

How would it be easy to commit fraud?

[@DishDetergent898]

@@sailorx72 Do you know what a certificate based hack is? Most modern security depends upon keys shared between you and a server, there's at least two dozen ways to fake or steal the certificate from someone and login as them. The US literally set back Iran's nuclear program by years with Stuxnet that spread on USB drives...you think that technically proficient and dedicated people couldn't find a way to do something?

[@QuantumIllusionStudio]

This voting app guy is so full of bullshit 😂

[@ArmenianBot]

Care to elaborate?

[@jacobrutherford9825]

The idea that everyone should vote is laughable. More people voting doesn’t mean you get a better result. It’s like some kind of narcissistic delusion that humans would function as a brilliant hive mind if we had pure all encompassing democracy. Competent, motivated people should vote. Everyone should be allowed to vote, but we shouldn’t be hunting down their votes. The extent to which you are motivated to vote is an important part of what makes democracy work. Letting the uninspired opinions of the majority drown out the needs of a large minority is a problem, and it’s exactly what will happen. It would be tyranny of the majority, and no matter how big an issue is, it wouldn’t be solved if it wasn’t happening to over 50% of people. Right now, you get “get out the vote” based on how important issues actually are.

[@frankwestphal8532]

%he fact that we haven't had e voting, or mobile voting thus far is absolutely ridiculous. We do everything else on phones. Why wouldn't we do that too?

[@NoName-cx3gk]

You could also impose a fine on individuals who do not vote-$20, for example. This approach would disproportionately impact poorer individuals, potentially motivating them to participate in elections to avoid the penalty.

[@vinsbargains5920]

If you don't like tariffs what is your solution to the problem that America makes nothing other than fries ?

[@kimhuskey6115]

Tariffs are the answer.

[@frankyan9596]

A lot of the problems are not really labor costs. It’s how small and inefficient lots of American companies are. To make something say an RC toy car you need to deal with 5-10 salespeople and all of them and their bosses need to get paid without contributing to the manufacturing process. And all these wholesalers want a margin like retailers. To build a control panel of a custom machine, I can buy a component that’s made in Europe from a Chinese distributor 25% cheaper than from an American distributor. Don’t you see what’s wrong there and why tariffs don’t help the cause of made in USA? We are supposed to specialize to be more efficient (that’s what the Chinese companies usually do) but in reality I always found it’s cheaper to just buy the equipment to be self-sufficient. It’s faster and cheaper😂😂😂 So I would say the issue is the American greediness in manufacturing and business to business wholesaler.

[@adamdarrow]

Trade certificates

[@oremfrien]

First, I would ask WHY the US needs to be involved in manufacturing. It can’t be because Americans can make things more cheaply; we can’t compete with developing countries on labor costs. It has to be that we make things BETTER than the lower cost countries. We need to differentiate ourselves based on quality, smaller supply-chains, more resilience/antifragility, and technology. Tariffs will not fix the problem; it just means that the American consumer will pay more and have a correspondingly lower standard of living.