Predicting Our Future

Episode 7: Can Online Voting Defeat the Broken Electoral College?

06.01.2017 - By Andrew Weinreich, serial entrepreneur & inventor of the world's first social network, sixdegreesPlay

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In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a little over a half of the voting age population cast their votes and the candidate who won the presidency lost the popular vote. Is the problem with low U.S. voter turnout due to culture or lack of accessibility? Without amending the U.S. Constitution, is there a way to use technology to improve voter turnout and overcome the effects of the Electoral College? In the first episode of a 3-part series on the future of online voting, Andrew explores the broken American election system and interviews some of the foremost experts and innovators in this space, including Professor David Dill, John Koza of National Popular Vote, Thad Hall of Fors Marsh Group, Professor Dan Wallach, & Antonio Mugica of Smartmatic.

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