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From Bradley Tusk, prominent philanthropist and creator of the Mobile Voting movement, comes an urgent and timely analysis of our broken democracy and the revolutionary way we can fix it: voting from our phones.
The way we vote is broken.
Poll after poll reveals that most Americans agree on major issues--gun control, climate change, healthcare--but low voter turnout keeps our elected officials on the far ends of the political spectrum and unable to compromise. Every policy output is the result of political input, and our inputs are not representative. Our voting system is heavily influenced by special interests among politicians who worry about their next elections and little else.
The technology exists to fix this problem by drastically increasing voter turnout: mobile voting.
