Book

Vote with your phone : why mobile voting is our final shot at saving democracy

Call Number

  • 324.65 T964 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2024]

Physical Description

xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

"The way we vote is broken. Poll after poll reveals that most Americans agree on major issues--gun control, climate change, healthcare--but low voter turnout keeps our elected officials on the far ends of the political spectrum and unable to compromise. Every policy output is the result of political input, and our inputs are not representative. Our voting system is heavily influenced by special interests among politicians who worry about their next elections and little else. The technology exists to fix this problem by drastically increasing voter turnout: mobile voting. We do just about everything on our phones, but we can't use them to vote. But since 2018, mobile voting pilots and audits have taken place in 21 elections and 7 states. This technology has the ability to exponentially increase voter turnout and restore faith in the promise of a representative democracy where compromise and bipartisanship are possible. This book introduces the history, opposition, and potential of mobile voting to generate grassroot support and encourage us to seize the solution we already have"--

Contents

  • Foreword by David Hogg
  • Part 1: The system is very, very broken. Why things feel so bad (and what we can do about it)
  • The ten rules that demystify politics
  • Why people lost faith in the system
  • What we get from the status quo
  • Part 2: Why voting is hard and how people have tried to make it better. Why voting is unnecessarily difficult for far too many
  • How reformers are working to make voting easier
  • Part 3: Mobile voting is the answer. How the mobile voting project came to be
  • The people who hate mobile voting (and who really like things the way they are)
  • The tech build
  • Part 4: Personal essays (the people who like mobile voting). Martin Luther King III
  • Congressman Josh Gottheimer
  • Maurice Turner
  • Avalon Zborovsky-Fenster
  • Francisco Aguilar
  • Katherine Gehl
  • Rob Richie
  • Mark Riccobono
  • Part 5: What you can do about it. Gen Z and Gen Alpha are the future now
  • How you can change things
  • Appendix 1: Sample Q&A about mobile voting
  • Appendix 2: Traditional and digital absentee voting: comparative risk analysis
  • Appendix 3: Post-election audit.

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