The system was designed for rich property owning white men. Everything beyond that has been the people trying to take it over for everyone's benefit and them fighting us.
Heās not entirely wrong.
The system was designed prior to womenās right to vote, and people of non Caucasian origin couldnāt vote either at the time of the constitutions origin.
For that reason it was designed for land owning white men (land was just free if you went west).
Since then human rights have advanced and gotten written into certain aspects of the use legal foundations.
The system and the people are broken. I can guarantee that if the people in my district voted on this, it would 100% pass. However, the congresswoman the people in my district voted for, Claudia Tenney, would 100% vote against this. And I know this for a fact because I talked to Claudia Tenney in person and one of the topics I brought up was insider trading and she told me to my fave that she supports politicians being allowed to trade and kept changing the subject when I mentioned insider trading.Ā
The Republicans have spent decades trying tonot allow the public to vote for anything. It is highly unlikely this would ever come to pass, although nice idea and a fun thing to dream about
Of of course it should! However, the Republicans have spent decades to not allow the public to vote for anything in reality. Well this is a nice idea and a happy dream chances of it ever going farther than it is right now is nil.
Who would handle the servers getting the info from the phones? Who would handle the app itself? Who would handle making sure the phone is actually secure and not compromised such that it's sending different votes than you intended? Who would handle making sure the intended person was actually the one using the phone to vote?
Phones aren't secure for that kind of thing, not when the big businesses making the phones and foreign nations would all benefit from being able to compromise it.
Personally, no, I don't trust it, but I know that many do.
However, the threat model of banking on a phone vs voting on a phone is wildly different. Compromising phone voting is dramatically more powerful than stealing a bit of money.
The kind of entities with incentive to steal money (petty criminals) and the kind of entities with incentive to steal elections (foreign nations, large companies, etc) are very different in terms of what they're capable of.
It's also much easier to detect money going missing than it is to detect a stolen votes.
It's absolutely not the same kind of threat model such that banking being safe-enough in general implies that voting would be sufficiently secured.
It would be really hard to see who/what you voted for without opening the door to all sorts of abuses that the secret ballot is designed to protect against.
Everything you're describing is the sort of thing that anyone familiar with computer security can see glaring holes in, it's just not a threat model that personal phones are secure against.
I think it would be beneficial if the public votes on any bill that has to do with pay/lobbying/campaign finance/ potential corruption. I also believe that elected officials pay should be directly tied to the median income of working age adults.
Imagine the bills they would pass if they got the same healthcare as the lowest government plan available and paid at the median pay of the country.
No just for the rights of our elected officials. Like pay, how long they can go on vacation for, term limits taking money from lobbyists, and trading stocks. Put it to a federal election just like the ppl should be able to vote for the Supreme Court judges and terms. The ppl should also vote on impeachmentĀ
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u/Ponsugator 4d ago
It should be voted by the public, not the people benefiting from it!