> 1. How about low voter turnout, so elections aren’t representative of what the people want. An app would increase voter turnout by a lot, especially the young

> 1. How about low voter turnout, so elections aren’t representative of what the people want. An app would increase voter turnout by a lot, especially the younger vote. Improved accessibility from the status quo has minimal marginal effect on turnout. https://www.eac.gov/documents/2017/02/23/will-vote-by-mail-elections-increase-turnout/ https://www.eac.gov/documents/2017/02/23/will-vote-by-mail-e... > 2. How about letting less mobile people to vote. Or people who are not able to take off work that day. Paper mail-in ballots are a well-established way to accomplish this, though they do have their own risks---specifically vote-buying and coercion. My county in California also allows curbside voting by appointment, which is pretty great for elderly voters. >3. How about being able to count elections in time to call them, instead of things where Bush gets elected because some guys ran out of time, and then it turns put Gore would have won? This is already a solved problem with precinct-counted optical scanned ballots. I highly recommend you volunteer to be a poll worker the next time there's an election in your state. You'll learn a lot about the real problems on the ground. For example, in my precinct during the 2018 midterms, we encountered an issue with the voter rolls: the city had recently renamed a street but a lot of people's registrations still reflected the previous name, which slowed things down significantly.