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Ok, so it's 2016 and I'm not naive in suggesting this but does anybody think that we should figure out how people can vote from their homes/phones? DoS attacks

• joveian 10y ago
  The Oregon/Washington/Colorado vote by mail system is very convenient. We get paper ballots by mail which can be returned by mail or dropped in official boxes and the results are scanned. This leaves a paper trail that is possible to recount if necessary. Voters in a little over half of US states can vote at home[0], but they need to explicitly request ballots. The ability to vote at home does seem to increase voting percentages. It is hard to compare before/after since all states that have so far switched entirely to vote by mail had a popular option for a while before, but all three states seem to do fairly well in national rankings, maybe particularly so in non-presidential election years. I found a site that collects such data [1] (relative to voting eligible population not registered voters) and in 2014 Colorado was 4th highest, Oregon #5, and Washington #21. For this election it looks like Colorado was #6, Oregon #13, and Wasington #16. So voting percentages might not go way up if everyone did this, but seem likely to go up some at least. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absentee_ballot#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absentee_ballot#United_States [1] http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout-data http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout...