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Using Crowdsourcing To Design More Accessible Elections

Posted by samzenpus on from the two-votes-are-better-than-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is sponsoring an online, open innovation challenge to search for creative answers to the question: 'How might we design an accessible election experience for everyone?' The goal is to develop ideas for how to make elections more accessible to everyone, especially people with disabilities."

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  1. Ballot stuffing is very rare. by khasim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ballot stuffing (or even voting two or more times) is very rare.
    So rare as to be a non-issue. Despite claims to the contrary.

    Most attempts at "fixing" the "voter fraud" issue are really aimed at making it more difficult for people to vote. They have to jump through more hoops so they might not be able to afford it in time or money (or both). Meanwhile, the people with the extra time and money CAN jump through the hoops (after all, they determined what those hoops would be). So the only "legit" voters are the people who are already prosperous under the existing system.

    So it is just a way to maintain the status quo.

    Anyway, on to improving the system.

    1. How about extending "election day" to more than a single day?

    2. And how about including a national holiday in that period? Move Presidents Day so that it falls in the middle of "Voting Week". Or the end. Or the beginning. Or even on "Election Day" if you don't want to add more days. Yay! Holiday! Get out and VOTE!