Re:“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming
by mikeash on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @12:36PM
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The problem with this sentiment is that ignorance and lack of enthusiasm aren’t necessarily correlated. Lots of normal people follow politics enough to be informed but are too busy to vote. Lots of crazy people get their information exclusively from bogus sources and turn up for every election.
Keeping it harder to vote doesn’t select for informed people, it selects for fanatics and extremists. Making it easier to vote selects for moderates and sane people. That would be a huge win for us.
That said, computerized voting is definitely not the way to do it.
Keeping it harder to vote doesn’t select for informed people, it selects for fanatics and extremists. Making it easier to vote selects for moderates and sane people. That would be a huge win for us.
That said, computerized voting is definitely not the way to do it.