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7/17/2025, 1:37:26 PM
No.715703471
>>715700973
>why won't they implement a system where the people can vote on matters of legislation by simply using a phone app
Because, as you saw with the whole situation with mail-in ballot during Covid, the argument is that "Poor people wouldn't be able to afford it" completely ignoring that you can get a pre-paid phone for $50 with no plan and like a month of data as long as you just use it for website usage. There's also the fact that even some of the poorest people in Africa have cheap Android phones yet they think American's can't get a hold of said same phones?
Even if you get past that hurdle you then get into the issue of security and keeping your SSN safe. They'd kind of have to overhaul everything to do checks on their SSN database to make sure you are still a living person and can legally vote. This is all ignoring the main issue that would pop up which would be how easy it would be to fudge the numbers on the end of it. Unless you had like two or three separate nonpartisan third-parties which have no relation to anyone in governmental institutions I don't see how people would find it trustworthy in the slightest.
Again, during Covid people didn't believe mail-in ballots were trustworthy and you want a government-designed app that does basically the same thing?
>why won't they implement a system where the people can vote on matters of legislation by simply using a phone app
Because, as you saw with the whole situation with mail-in ballot during Covid, the argument is that "Poor people wouldn't be able to afford it" completely ignoring that you can get a pre-paid phone for $50 with no plan and like a month of data as long as you just use it for website usage. There's also the fact that even some of the poorest people in Africa have cheap Android phones yet they think American's can't get a hold of said same phones?
Even if you get past that hurdle you then get into the issue of security and keeping your SSN safe. They'd kind of have to overhaul everything to do checks on their SSN database to make sure you are still a living person and can legally vote. This is all ignoring the main issue that would pop up which would be how easy it would be to fudge the numbers on the end of it. Unless you had like two or three separate nonpartisan third-parties which have no relation to anyone in governmental institutions I don't see how people would find it trustworthy in the slightest.
Again, during Covid people didn't believe mail-in ballots were trustworthy and you want a government-designed app that does basically the same thing?