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You could easily make it easier and engage younger folks: make it a Tinder style app. Swipe right on the president you want to match with!
by count 10y ago
You could easily make it easier and engage younger folks: make it a Tinder style app.
Swipe right on the president you want to match with!
- M2Ys4U 10y agoYou might get a few more "young" people participating, but electronic voting is such an absolutely terrible idea.
- Aloha 10y agoI dont think electronic voting on its face is an inherently bad idea - but I've yet to see a proposal I like very much. Electronic Collection of votes seems very logical, if you then immediately generate a paper record (like a punched card) of the results of that particular ballot. Those paper results could then be tabulated and compared to the electronic results.
- superuser2 10y agoAt which point you have used the electronic voting system as a very expensive pencil.
- duaneb 10y agoThat's reductive. There are many reasons to prefer electronic voting: increased visibility into whether your vote actually counts, a paper trail that is not subject to human error, and (YES, this is important) convenience. There's really no reason every citizen shouldn't vote, but electronic voting would certainly reduce voter suppression and (IMHO) increase confidence in the process. I'd certainly be happier with a cryptography-oriented process rather than one relying on humans, which can be reliable en masse, but are also easily fooled.
- superuser2 10y agoHow do you get a paper trail and convenience at the same time? Either you're at a polling place (so convenience is the same) or you're at home and you need to transport your receipt to some kind of counting facility (just like voting a paper ballot by mail). >increase confidence in the process >increased visibility into whether your vote actually counts IMO this is exactly wrong. We've had a LONG time to figure out how to count paper ballots by hand in ways that are resilient to fraud. Each ballot (and its corresponding tally mark) is handled in view of observers representing the opposing candidates. If there is something fishy about the count, at least one of the people who observed the counting process has the information and incentives necessary to attract more scrutiny. >would certainly reduce voter suppression Only if people do it from home, in which case there is no paper trail. Unless you mail in the paper trail, in which case you may as well have mailed in your ballot.
- maxerickson 10y agoMy state does it the other way around. We mark paper ballots with a pen and then stick them into an electronic tabulator. Fast results, strong paper trail, failure of the electronic part of the system doesn't hamper voting.
- em3rgent0rdr 10y agoWhat state is that? The paper trail and ability of independent audit is crucial.
- maxerickson 10y agoMichigan. But there are 18 states that use such a system. https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_equipment_by_state https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_equipment_by_state
- em3rgent0rdr 10y agoWhat about third parties and independent candidates? Such an app would just serve to strengthen the two party duopoly and propogate the fallacy that there are only two sides to every issue.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoTinder essentially does approval voting (swipe right to approve of a candidate, swipe left to disapprove). That should, in theory, make things easier for third party candidates.