How a Digital Voting System Can Be Much Better Than What We Have Today
I want to vote on my phone next time!
I am hoping that one day we will all be laughing, incredulous, as we reminisce about 2020 and how we voted by mail using paper, markers, and envelopes. It might be too late for most of us but there is hope that our children and grandchildren build a digital democracy.
“You guys had computers, the internet, and smartphones? Right?”
“We did… but it is complicated.”
We somehow concluded that the only way we could vote was to show up in person or mail it in, jumping a bunch of hoops in the process and a couple 20 feet high metaphorical walls for some.
As I write this, mid-day on November 3rd, 2020, this is the most important election I can think of in my lifetime.
It is expected that not all winners will be announced today and that we will need weeks to count all the votes. It is also assumed that some ballots will be recounted and challenged. There is a risk of unrest and violence.
Both sides are strategizing and funding initiatives to go through the courts, congress, and any other alternatives, if any results are not leaning one way, in the multiple contests taking place at once throughout the country.
