Do you think a voting app would be useful?

[Shadowspire]

So, ever voting period ppl take, or gloss about one issue in voting, not a lot of ppl can vote because work/school and as well the time limit to vote when in a large line so some just avoid voting in general. But what if there was a easier way to vote? And so what if voting was as easy as pulling out your phone out at certain points and picking those u want to elect, then u go about ur day.

I think this would work, and before speaking about voter fraud, there has constantly be beliefs that's is always a thing, there's already talks of that for this current campaign. I believe however that these methods would kind of help.

First get the app, duh.
Second, once u put in ur info that shows u are a legal citizen , the whole mambo jumbo.
You then go to your third and final step, go to your county,province,whatever where u register and have an official physically validate u are a human being and who u say u are, they'll then fully activate ur account and u can vote for everything from the smallest level of city council to president of the United States, of course at the designated times that is.

[May90]

Would be nice! We live in the age of the Internet, so it doesn't make sense to still use a stone age voting system with throwing paper into an urn.

[Collegeguy]

A lot of problems. In order to ensure you are a legal citizen, you would have to give strong identification because you're not there in person. The left doesn't like voter ID laws. Also, it would make it easier for young people to vote. The right doesn't like too many young people voting.

[Crissi]

The average human isn't intelligent enough to make something as important as this viable. Especially since bad people coukd spoof a fake app and people would believe it

[Poopymonster]

Yes it would be useful. Only if they could guarantee it couldn't be hacked.

Otherwise we'd actually have all that voter fraud we keep hearing about.

[Masark]

Would be nice! We live in the age of the Internet, so it doesn't make sense to still use a stone age voting system with throwing paper into an urn.

Except the whole thing where you can actually count the papers and observe them being counted, something that is not possible for electronic voting.

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Otherwise we'd actually have all that voter fraud we keep hearing about.

You wouldn't have voter fraud, you'd get electoral fraud.

[Stormdash]

It's a fantastically, fantastically stupid idea. If by all means you want results as reliable as a poll on salon, have at it.

[Independent voter]

Maybe if they give everyone a physical thing that held their identity, you'd plug this "usb stick thing" in, log onto the voting web site and log in with a username and password. Maybe it would scan your thumbprint too. Basically it would be three factor authentication.

That and there would be some kind of transparency so that everyone could look over the voting roles and the way people voted while still keeping voter privacy.

I think it could be done.

[Deletedaccount1]

They can already rig elections in person in the US so I don't even want to think about what they could do with an app.

[Raeonn]

Too bad everyone's overlooking the fact that on the presidential level the people's choice doesn't matter, and yeah, I'm being "that guy".
Even still, the "paper" ballot has been rigged before, didn't that happen with Obama vs. Romney in Florida and few other states? Where they had to redo all the voting because the system was tampered with?

In closing, who we (the lesser working class) want isn't really our choice and whomever becomes PotUS will get flak either way.

[Celista]

In Oregon you get your ballot auto-mailed to you, you can mail it back or drop it off in dozens of locations....public libraries, ballot offices, etc. Best system I've seen, states that make you stand in line on election day need a better option for voters.

[Shadowspire]

So , once again I think you ppl didn't read everything I said.

I said to fully have it up and running for u, u have to physically show that you who you say you are. Something that can't be faked unless u are a twin.

As for hacking, there is always a threat of hacking votes in elections .

[Crissi]

So , once again I think you ppl didn't read everything I said.

I said to fully have it up and running for u, u have to physically show that you who you say you are. Something that can't be faked unless u are a twin.

As for hacking, there is always a threat of hacking votes in elections .

the only way that would work would be a dna test every time, and that isnt exactly possible right now or even in the near future. So...again no

[NoiseTank13]

It's a fantastically, fantastically stupid idea. If by all means you want results as reliable as a poll on salon, have at it.

It amuses me that people all think voting systems are as frail and easy to cheat like voting in American Idol or some other shit voting.

[I Push Buttons]

I'd prefer if voting for federal offices was taken over by a new federal agency and standardized. Same with IDs and the establishment of a standardized national ID.

You turn 18, you go to get your ID, prove your identity, etc... You are automatically registered to vote during that process. During presidential and mid term elections you are mailed a federal ballot. The end.

Of course such a system isn't possible until the Republican Party ceases to exist, fortunately it seems as though that won't be much longer.

[Crissi]

It amuses me that people all think voting systems are as frail and easy to cheat like voting in American Idol or some other shit voting.

relying on humans not to be stupid is a very very bad idea, which is what you do when you go to apps. You're relying on people not getting scammed, downloading malicious apps, not clicking on bad links, ect...

[Masark]

As for hacking, there is always a threat of hacking votes in elections .

Please explain how you're going to hack paper ballots that everyone can watch being put in the box and then counted.

[Celista]

I'd prefer if voting for federal offices was taken over by a new federal agency and standardized. Same with IDs and the establishment of a standardized national ID.

You turn 18, you go to get your ID, prove your identity, etc... You are automatically registered to vote during that process. During presidential and mid term elections you are mailed a federal ballot. The end.

Of course such a system isn't possible until the Republican Party ceases to exist, fortunately it seems as though that won't be much longer.

We can only hope...

I can't emphasize enough how nice it is to be mailed a ballot for every election. It is 10000000000000x better than having to stand in line somewhere. I might have left off a couple of 0s but you get my point...also much more inclusive, think about the amount of people who have a hard time showing up on a particular day to vote for whatever reason.

Oregon also mails out a detailed list of issues on the ballot before the election, along with snapshots of candidates' stances on various issues (in their own words I believe).

[breadisfunny]

seems like a bad idea.

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In Oregon you get your ballot auto-mailed to you, you can mail it back or drop it off in dozens of locations....public libraries, ballot offices, etc. Best system I've seen, states that make you stand in line on election day need a better option for voters.

you saying our lines suck?! cause our counties voting lines are the best in the nation!

[Gamdwelf]

Would be nice! We live in the age of the Internet, so it doesn't make sense to still use a stone age voting system with throwing paper into an urn.

I like to throw paper into an urn.