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When It Comes to Voting, You Can’t Phone It In
It might be more convenient to cast your ballot in a mobile app, but our democracy would lose something.
Sure, look at your phone while you wait to vote. Just don’t vote with it.
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A lot of people are excited about recent research suggesting that mobile voting would mean more voters casting ballots. No doubt the premise is correct. If you lower the cost of an activity, you get more of it. Still, there are reasons to be skeptical.
In the third place, the security risks are obvious. In the second place, as regular readers know, I've long questioned whether higher turnout leads to better results.